Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10/17/2008 09:31 AM, Martin Rubey wrote: > > A remotely similar problem: make install (at least with ecl) requires > > presence > > of *source* tree, which posed some problems here in Hannover. > > I don't know for sure, but I tend to see this as a bug. But thinking > twice... you usually type "./configure && make && make install". So you > most probably have the sources at your disposal. You surely mean some > other use case. Would be nice to be a bit more precise in the first place.
The procedure here worked as follows: * compile (as ordinary user) on a user machine * copy it to a server machine (which has different architecture) with special priviledges (I'm not sure whether root was enough here) * make install on the server machine. > And if I have some software that would with > > ./configure --prefix=~/software > > write anywhere outside ~/software, I would throw that software away > since it is dangerous. well, prefix is usually just /usr/local. If you have some program in usr/local/fricas, it will be removed... It's not so important to me, though. Martin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
