On Thursday 27 October 2005 8:16, David Watkins wrote: > On 27/10/05, Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I've noticed that make install puts the binaries into /usr/local/, > > > whereas the rpm binaries are currently in /usr/local/bin, so am I > > > correct in thinking that nothing would get overwritten and I > > > manually > > > move files or adjust the order of the path to enable the compiled > > > versions? > > > > I think there's a file called settings.pro (from memory) which lets > > you override the target dir for install so you could use that to get > > make install to install to the current location. I don't know what > > the > > consequences of having simultaneous RPM and CVS installs, but it > > sounds like the sort of thing that could turn ugly. > > It does doesn't it. > > I don't really want to keep the rpm setup, just move between the two > in a controlled way. I guess what you're saying is I should uninstall > the rpms first?
Managing simultaneous RPM-based and locally compiled installations of any software package is pretty tricky. You might find it easier to simply manage multiple locally-compiled versions, with one of them being a stable release (say 0.18.1) that you've compiled from source. Once you decide to go with locally compiled versions, you can use something like GNU Stow (http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/stow.html) to manage them. This is what I do, and it's not difficult at all. If stow isn't already on your system, you can probably install it via apt or yum, or find an rpm. -JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
