On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 10:11:48PM +0800, Charles Jie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| That's exactly the function I want.
| 
| But because it's a sourcer-level patch that I need to
| patch-compile-install. I'm afraid that might cause trouble with my
| current installation from rpm package by Mandrake 8.1.

Just do the install somewhere else. I routinely start my builds like this:

        ./configure --prefix=/opt/mutt-version

eg

        ./configure --prefix=/opt/mutt-1.3.25-label-patch

Then just run the new executable - no need to deinstall the Mandrake one.
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