Re: Installing without root privileges in /usr/local
enclair <[email protected]> Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:55:37 +0100
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--f46d04440266021daf04bb13a482 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Le 10 mars 2012 19:13, Adam Spiers <[email protected]> a =E9crit : > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:31 PM, enclair <[email protected]> wrote: > > Another thing I don't understand is the GNU Emacs example. > > The documentation mention the "new" prefix, but never the old prefix. S= o > I > > don't know which is the value of the old prefix, and which is the value > of > > the new prefix. > > The "old" prefix is the value specified to ./configure, which 'make > install' will use by default if the "new" prefix is not given. I > agree the wording could be improved. > Ok I think I understand now this example. Thanks for your answers. Finally I think I'll keep stow to install packages in $HOME/local(/stow) instead of $HOME/opt like I did before. For packages in /usr/local I've changed my mind and I will use rpm instead. --f46d04440266021daf04bb13a482 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Le 10 mars 2012 19:13, Adam Spiers <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:= [email protected]">[email protected]</a>></span> a =E9crit :<br><div= class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 = 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class=3D"im">On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:31 PM, enclair <<a href=3D"ma= ilto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>> wrote:<br> > Another thing I don't understand is the GNU Emacs example.<br> > The documentation mention the "new" prefix, but never the ol= d prefix. So I<br> > don't know which is the value of the old prefix, and which is the = value of<br> > the new prefix.<br> <br> </div>The "old" prefix is the value specified to ./configure, whi= ch 'make<br> install' will use by default if the "new" prefix is not given= . =A0I<br> agree the wording could be improved.<br></blockquote><div><br>Ok I think I = understand now this example.<br>Thanks for your answers.<br>Finally I think= I'll keep stow to install packages in $HOME/local(/stow) instead of $H= OME/opt like I did before.<br> For packages in /usr/local I've changed my mind and I will use rpm inst= ead.<br><br></div></div> --f46d04440266021daf04bb13a482--