Re: Newbie: Installing some binaries and other files in /usr/X11R6 by default

[Gary V. Vaughan]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I started reading about GNU Autotools yesterday morning.
 Still, I've been able to convert my project to use
 autconf and automake.
 But I need to install my binaries in the directory
 tree of the X server, and I couldn't find out how to
 do it. Is it possible?

$ ../path/to/configure --prefix=/path/to/X11R6/root/directory
$ make
$ su
# make install

HTH,
Gary.
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Re: Newbie: Installing some binaries and other files in /usr/X11R6 by default

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi,

* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 09:28:37AM CET:
 I started reading about GNU Autotools yesterday morning.
 Still, I've been able to convert my project to use
 autconf and automake.
 But I need to install my binaries in the directory
 tree of the X server, and I couldn't find out how to
 do it. Is it possible?

   ./configure --prefix=/usr/X11R6

and maybe also add --sysconfdir and other directory options to match
your desired installation.
   ./configure --help

has more information, the `INSTALL' file even more.

I would warn against overwriting system files though, unless you really
know what you're doing.  Modern unices have packaging systems. :-)

Cheers,
Ralf

Newbie: Installing some binaries and other files in /usr/X11R6 by default

[lalev]

I started reading about GNU Autotools yesterday morning.
Still, I've been able to convert my project to use
autconf and automake.
But I need to install my binaries in the directory
tree of the X server, and I couldn't find out how to
do it. Is it possible?