Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[..] > or the other way around - make the installation directory owned by user > that is doing the install, that way you can make sure that it does install > files only where you want, not anyplace in the system. e.g.: > > ... > %./configure --prefix=/opt/jack-version > % su > # mkdir /opt/jack-version > # chown erik:erik /opt/jack-version > # exit > % make install > > optionally followed by (doesn't work well with all programs): > > % su > # stow -d /opt -t /usr/local jack-version > > after install is done you can chown /opt/jack-version to root:root or > something... I don't know what stow does, but in case Jack installs a shared library (I believe it does), you might have to add that /opt/... path to /etc/ld.so.conf and, no matter where you install it, you will have to do ldconfig (as root). Just my 0,02 nitpicks, Frank
