On Sat, 02 Mar 2013, Beno?t Minisini wrote: > Le 01/03/2013 15:18, Tobias Boege a ?crit : > > Hi, > > > > we would like to have at least the stable version and trunk of Gambas > > installed on the same machine. It's no problem to ./configure --prefix=$DIR > > but I worry about the components... I looked around a bit in the sources and > > it seemed to me that all components are eventually loaded from under /usr > > (because of GAMBAS_LINK_PATH) which means that the components are from > > another version. > > > > Did I miss something? How could it be accomplished to have two revisions of > > Gambas right runnable one the same machine? > > > > Regards, > > Tobi > > > > You can't easily have different major version of Gambas running on the > same system. > > To find the Gambas installation directory, Gambas does something weird: > it looks at the path defined at compilation time, but if '/usr/bin/gbx3' > exists, it takes precedence. And if that '/usr/bin/gbx3' is a symbolic > link, that symbolic is followed. > > Then "/usr/bin/env" is used for finding the interpreter inside Gambas > executable shebang. > > So if you install two different Gambas in two different prefixs that are > *not* /usr, then you can switch between both by changing the > '/usr/bin/gbx3' symbolic link. But you can't have both running at the > same time! >
No, running both at the same time is not necessary. For the adventurous people, changing a /usr/bin/gbx3 symlink to switch between versions is an acceptable approach, I guess. Thanks, Tobi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
