On 12/5/10 6:41 PM, Randolph Bentson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 12:50:32PM +0000, Gerard Cunningham wrote: > >> Remember what I said about fool proof? Can you >> clarify for me, where do I create that directory? >> Is it: >> 1. /scribus-1.3.9 >> 2. /home/scribus-1.3.9 >> 3. /home/username/scribus-1.3.9 >> 4. /home/username/Downloads/scribus-1.3.9 >> >> Maybe I was over thinking it , but lacking >> further clarity, I went with option 1. > I recommend creating directories > /home/username/Download > /home/username/src > /home/username/bin > > Fetch tarball, zip file, etc. into the first; > extract contents to the second, where you compile; > and install into the third.
For CMake builds, use out of source builds.. so, no, you can be clean and not build in the src directory. > Make sure your PATH environment variable includes an entry for > the latter. This is generally done with entries such as > PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin > export PATH > in your shell start-up scripts such as .bash_profile. > > If you're interested in maintaining multiple versions of > some program, rename the bare executable to a name with > its version , e.g., "scribus" to "scribus-1.3.8", before > installing the latest with the bare name. No need to rename any binary yourself.. add -DWANT_VERSIONING=1 to the CMake command line and it will add the version to the binary name, so "scribus" automatically would be installed as "scribus-1.3.9" for example. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 259 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20101205/699180aa/attachment.pgp>
