Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 11 March 2007, Alex Schuster wrote: > Additionally, I like to have the stuff separated in sub-directories > of /usr/local, and use stow or better xstow to create symlinks, so > the software appears to be installed directly in /usr/local. That sounds like an awful lot of work, all for n

Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-11 Thread Nick Rout
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:10:22 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: I am hoping that someone can provide me with resources - examples and/or a walkthrough would be especially helpful. I realize that the Gentoo team can only do so much and carefully test each package before pu

Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov writes: > You most likely want to install that software in /usr/local as per > Gentoo's filesystem layout [1]. The way you can do that with > autotoolized software is like this: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local > make > make install > > I don't know what you mean by m

Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:10:22 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > I am hoping that someone can provide me with resources - examples > > and/or a walkthrough would be especially helpful. I realize that the > > Gentoo team can only do so much and carefully test each package > > before putting it in

Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-10 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
On 3/10/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello Everyone, I will begin by stating my problem. I have the source code (in *.tar.bz2 format) for a couple of pieces of software that are not in the Portage tree at all. I would like to compile and

Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 11 March 2007 05:25:24 Chris wrote: > I will begin by stating my problem. I have the source code (in > *.tar.bz2 format) for a couple of pieces of software that are not in the > Portage tree at all. I would like to compile and install them in such a > way that I can use them, and even s

[gentoo-user] A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-10 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello Everyone, I will begin by stating my problem. I have the source code (in *.tar.bz2 format) for a couple of pieces of software that are not in the Portage tree at all. I would like to compile and install them in such a way that I can use them