>> motion keeps segfaulting on me, I've been over it with the motion >> list, and we're down to this: >> >> [quote] >> i've checked with a gentoo user in #motion channel >> >> wget >> http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/motion/motion-3.2.10.1.ta >>r.gz tar xfvz motion-3.2.10.1.tar.gz >> cd motion-3.2.10.1 >> ./configure --with-developer-flags >> edit Makefile ( from motion directoty ) remove -O2 de CFLAGS >> make >> ./motion -n -d 10 >> >> >> No issues , working good ... so problem is in gentoo emerge / ebuild .. >> or hardware problems >> [/quote] >> >> Won't that install files all over my system that I won't be able to >> get rid of later? > > Not unless you issue a "make install", too. All stays in the local > directory where you unpacked the tarball. Works for simpe projects, but > other might need some files be installed in certain places. > Sometimes you can issue al "make uninstall" later to clean things up, but > this is not always the case. > >> What would you guys do in this situation? > > Doing the "make install", but in a specific directory, like /usr/local. > You can set this diretory with the --prefix option to configure. It seems > to be the default often anyway. > > But then you clutter your /usr/local directory. So I suggest using stow, > or better, xstow, to install software. It goes like this: > > cd myproject-1.2.3 > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/myproject-1.2.3 > make > su > emerge xstow > make install > cd /usr/local/stow > stow myproject-1.2.3 > > Now you have symlinks in /usr/local, as if you installed into /usr/local > directly. To uninstall, issue a 'xstow -D myproject-1.2.3' and > remove /usr/local/stow/myproject-1.2.3. All clean and tidy again. > > Wonko
Thank you very much. 3.2.11 ended up fixing the segfault. - Grant
