On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:54 AM, nicolas romain lac <[email protected]> wrote: > I use wmii version 3.6. This version is provided by the package wmii > 3.6+debian-4 (ubuntu intrepid). > > This version is getting old, and I would like to compile the latest version.
Good idea. Version 3.6 is ancient, and wmii @ hg tip is quite stable. I watch this <http://code.suckless.org/hg/wmii/atom-log> RSS feed to decide when to hg pull and install. I always use hg tip (or near it) of wmii. > I don't want to run "make install", because I only to uses packages. You can install wmii, libixp, and dmenu all in my home directory by setting the PREFIX variable in the config.mk file in each of the respective source code directories. For instance, because I keep locally installed apps in ~/app/, I set these values in my hg clones of suckless.org projects: > grep '^PREFIX' */config.mk dmenu/config.mk:PREFIX = $(HOME)/app/wmii libixp/config.mk:PREFIX = $(HOME)/app/wmii wmii/config.mk:PREFIX = $(HOME)/app/wmii As you have discovered, libixp must be "make install"-ed before wmii. But dmenu can be "make install" at any time. > So my question is how to compile the latest version, and even better, can > somebody give a precompiled version for ubuntu intreprid. See this tutorial for building Ubuntu packages: http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/BuildingTutorial Cheers.
