Hi list and welcome in my first post, This is just a quick write down for future reference and other people to learn. I'm writing this after having going through these steps and i won't put many comments or further help in this mail, see it as a rough draft to potentially be added to the wiki.
# These two lines are specific for gentoo, but there should be equivalents for other distributions, just see http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/CategoryBinaries $ sudo emerge --sync $ sudo emerge darcs $ mkdir ~/build $ cd ~/build $ darcs get --partial http://darcs.net/repo/unstable-hashed $ cd unstable-hashed $ mkdir -p ~/local/{usr,etc} $ autoconf $ ./configure --prefix=~/local/usr --sysconfdir=~/local/etc $ make $ make install modify your ~/.bashrc before the part for "# Test for an interactive shell.", change PATH to look like following: # [snip] export PATH="$HOME/local/usr/bin:$PATH" # [snap] Test configuration from another machine via: $ ssh example.net 'darcs -v' 2.0.0pre3 (unstable branch) Presto, you have a _much_ faster Hope this helps someone, ^ manveru _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
