Hi all,
Not knowing the bootscripts as well as I should, I'm not sure how
to fix a broken bootscript.
The GDM bootscript has the programs hardcoded into the /usr directory,
so if $GNOME_PREFIX is anything but /usr, none of the commands in the
script will work.
It seems simple enough to just
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Just a suggestion here, to try to fix the breakage. I'll wait for
the community to provide suggestions before I do anything.
How about altering the bootscript so that $GNOME_PREFIX can be passed to make
install?
make $GNOME_PREFIX=/some/path install-gdm
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DJ Lucas wrote:
Actually I wouldn't use a bootscript for gdm/xdm/kdm, but it was decided
in not one, but two different discussions (one was heated) that this is
easiest from the users POV as opposed to setting it up in inittab.
Maybe its the Alzheimer's, but I don't remember either of these
Randy McMurchy wrote:
DJ Lucas wrote these words on 05/30/05 09:49 CST:
Difficult/Slow/Intelligent way:
if [ -f /usr/bin/gdm ]; then
/usr/bin/gdm
evaluate_retval
else
# Make certain the /opt/gnome is a symlink to
# to the most current /opt/gnome-${VERSION}
Why is
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
DJ Lucas wrote:
Maybe its the Alzheimer's, but I don't remember either of these
discussions. I would appreciate a pointer to the discussions.
http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/blfs-dev/2003-July/003095.html
Here is a link to the start of the discussion,
