On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 04:09:35PM -0700, Moore, Garron wrote: > What you have explained below is not an option for us. We can't assume the location > that they are putting it. I can't even assume that they have root access or write > permissions in /usr/local or /opt. Given this, do you have any recommendations? I > would be willing to create a script that goes into any file where the path is stored > and replaces it. > > I realize that what I'm asking is somewhat unique. I would really appreciate any > advice that you could give that would help me accomplish what I need to. >
I haven't seen the sources, but if fvwm uses hardcoded directories then the end users will either need to have root access to install it or have a compiler so that they can recompile it for their system requirements, or like someone else suggested, let them install wherever they want and make temporary links from /tmp each time you want to run it (may be a problem though letting multiple users run fvwm at the same time). > > Thanks, > > Garron Moore > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mikhael Goikhman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 3:40 PM > To: Moore, Garron > Cc: FVWM Users > Subject: Re: FVWM: Changing FVWM's location > > > On 16 Jul 2004 15:26:40 -0700, Moore, Garron wrote: > > > > I don't just want to move the location for the sake of moving it. The > > disk layout of end system that will be using FVWM is unknown to me. I > > have no knowledge of their filesystem layout and directory structure. > > I need to prepare FVWM so that wherever they want to place it on their > > disk, it will work as long as they have the environment variable > > $FVWM_ROOT pointed at the place they copied it to. They will not have > > a compiler on their system to rebuild based on their location choice. > > You may freely assume that /usr/local/fvwm (or /opt/fvwm) is the location allocated > for FVWM on any unix system, just use it. Require to setup one symlink at this > location to the actual prefix. > No you can't. This would be true for red hat systems with root access but in general would be false (debian for example doesn't even have /opt). > Regards, > Mikhael. > -- > Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. > To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a > message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
