On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Peter TB Brett<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 18 June 2009 20:53:59 Mark Rages wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Peter Clifton<[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 15:46 -0400, Ethan Swint wrote: >> >> OK - everything got installed to /root, instead of /usr/local... How >> >> to change that in the build process? I'm looking... >> > >> > There is a define in the top level "Makefile". It defaults to prefixing >> > in $HOME/geda/... >> > >> > so if you ran the build as root (unnecessary really), it will default >> > to /root/geda/... >> >> Why don't we default to /usr/local like every other Unix program? >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment > > If all goes as planned, we will soon. >
cool. you can switch off all those messages about $PATH diddling too. Is there going to be a "make" target that builds without installing? So I don't have to build as root to install in a root-owned $PREFIX? Will it be possible to build outside the source tree? Regards, Mark markra...@gmail -- Mark Rages, Engineer Midwest Telecine LLC [email protected] _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
