On Saturday 06 April 2002 18:12, Tim Wunder wrote: > So you compile as root? I've been compiling everything as user, then su'ing > to root to run checkinstall...
I do everything as root! Keeps me on my toes. (and please, leave the "oh my god. dont do that" argument in the grave everyone) > I'll look into this, I recall you mentioning something about this a while > back. I've pretty much left checkinstallrc alone (I just installed it on my > home box, prior to compiling KDE 2.2.2. Installed it at work a while ago). It's neat to customize it. You can have it build RPMS by default and then do 'checkinstall -y' and it will answer all the question for you. definately want to turn off the STRIP cause it sometimes can't tell the file it's stripping is a library. that can be bad > Why specify configure flags when they're the default? For qt, you've > specified -release -shared -no-nas-sound -sm -xinerama -xrender -xft > -no-tablet and -xkb, all of which seem to be the default, according to > ./configure --help I'm anal. Sure, the help output says it's the default, but does the code actually do that? also, what if it detects those libs? does the default "change". > > Also, you've listed qt-x11-free-3.x.x. I'd downloaded qt-copy-3.0.3, what's > the difference? name of the tarball > > You've placed qt3 in /usr/lib. Is that just personal preference? Why not > /usr/local/lib, or /opt? I consider it a system lib. Hence, /usr/lib. I hate the whole /usr/local abomination. I only put self-contained apps in /opt. > > Why --prefix=$KDEDIR ... --with-qt-dir=$QTDIR, again, aren't these the > default? anal. I figure, why take the chance? I type the command out once, then just keep pulling it back from the shell history... -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org and http://jobs.linux-sxs.org "She's gone! Oh my God, she used me. I was used. I was used! Cool" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
