On 17.06.2012 11:47, Marco wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> What is the official way install awesome with user rights somewhere
> under $HOME, say $HOME/.local ? The way it works with most other
> software is
> 
>   ./configure --prefix=/home/me/.local
>   make
>   make install
> 
> Awesome doesn't seem to use autotools to generate a configure script, but a
> different system I am not familiar with.
> 
> The argument -DPREFIX seems to be pretty much the equivalent of --prefix.
> However, it doesn't work, unfortunately. I tried to call make as follows
> 
>   make CMAKE_ARGS="-DSYSCONFDIR=/home/me/.local/etc -DPREFIX=/home/me/.local"
> 
> but it still tries to place some man pages in /usr/local

Either delete build/CMakeCache.txt (= don't change the prefix in a non-clean
build dir) or add -DAWESOME_MAN_PATH=/home/me/.local/share/man to your flags.

Uli
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