Craig Ringer wrote: >Wesley Allen wrote: > > >>OK, I know it's been asked, but what's the easierst way to run cvs and >>1.3.1 at the same time? >> >>If I get anoncvs and compile I'll still have 1.3.1 untouched, right? >> >> > >If, and only if, you install them to different prefixes, then yes. If >you used an RPM for 1.3.1 that'll be fine, since it will have gone into >/usr . Otherwise, I strongly suggest setting an explicit --prefix= when >calling configure. > > > VERY good idea.
>As I do rather a lot of Scribus builds, I personally favour >--prefix=$HOME/scribus/scribus-VERSION . Installing to a tree under my >home directory means that there's no need to run anything as root - >soemthing that's very reassuring when fiddling with the build system code. > > > Thanks again, keeping it in $HOME is a nice idea. >I don't usually bother incrementing VERSION except when official >releases happen, but if you're using CVS for production you might want >to increment it occasionally (scribus-1.3.2cvs-2, scribus-1.3.2vs-3, and >so on) to make sure you don't clobber a known working build. You must >"make clean" after changing the prefix argument to configure. > >This is especially true as things get lively down the track, like >Andreas mentioned. > > Thanks Craig, this is what I'll do. Wes >-- >Craig Ringer >_______________________________________________ >Scribus mailing list >Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > >
