On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:35:00AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > 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.
According to the FHS, you can use /usr/local for this purpose as a distribution should do nothing to the tree apart from initialise the directory structure. /opt is meant for large software systems like athena, gnome or kde. -- Benjamin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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