On Sun, 2017-10-29 at 17:12 +0900, Masashi Honma wrote:
> I'm interested in NetworkManager development.
> 
> Now I could build NetworkManager and start it by this command.
> # Then I stop the existing NetworkManager by service command.
> 
>       $ ./src/NetworkManager
> 
> # I do not run "make install" because I do not want to over write
> existing
> NetworkManager installed with apt get(I'm on Ubuntu 16.04).
> 
> And I think I should build network-manager-applet from this git also.
>       git://git.gnome.org/network-manager-applet
> 
> But before building the network-manager-applet, the existing
> network-manager-applet looks boot when I start the NetworkManager
> which I built.
> 
> Could I use built NetworkManager and network-manager-applet without
> over writing
> existing them ? If it could, how to use it ?
> 
> Regards,
> Masashi Honma.
> 

Hi,

check https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/Hacking


You don't need to rebuild the applet, unless you have specific reasons
to do so. Either don't use the applet at all (nmcli), or just use the
one provided by your installation. Older client versions are compatible
with newer server versions, so, the applet provided by your
distribution will work, unless you want to work on a server version
that is older (which would be odd to do).


NetworkManager gets D-Bus activated. So, if you just `systemctl disable
NetworkManager` in order to start the version that you built on your
own, then it might be restarted again, and conflict. You could for
example `systemctl mask NetworkManager`. See `man systemctl`.


You can install NM in a separate path, and run it from the terminal
with --debug option, so that it doesn't fork to background.

You could configure with
        --prefix=/opt/test \
        --localstatedir=/var \
        --sysconfdir=/etc \

There is also --run-from-build-dir configure option, so you can run it
from the build directory.


Good luck,
Thomas

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