Hylton,
One of the best ways to ensure this would be to run ./configure
--prefix=/usr/local, which will place anything that you've compiled into
the directories under /usr/local (such as /usr/local/bin, etc).
Michael
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Michael Viron
Senior Systems & Administration Consultant
Web Spinners, University of West Florida
At 02:40 PM 05/09/2001 +0200, Hylton Clarke wrote:
>This is a question that I am sure will help all of us on this list.
>
>I wanted to install Xine, the other day, and it is still broken, but
>that is another story :)
>
>During that process I had to install tarballs from the net, I had to
>untar them, run ./configure, make and make install. After doing so I
>wondered, what has happened to my system, when I ran these different
>make installs? How can I track all the files that have been installed,
>which files were removed, if any permissions were changed, directories
>added, removed?
>
>There must be a way to run some command before an install, then run a
>command afterward, and then compare the differences, but I mean ALL the
>differences that an install could possibly have changed. I want to be
>able to roll back if an install gives problems.
>
>Please help.
>
>--
>Kind regards,
>Hylton Clarke
>www.eBucks.com
>
>
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