On 2017-04-28 09:33, Danny YUE wrote:
> I am compiling RISC-V tools...I am just curious how do you manage your
> manually compiled software?
Michael already posted the "correct answer", and that's what I'm slowly
migrating towards, myself.
But the best way I've found before that was install it in a specific
subtree of my ~ (that way I don't need root at any time), and manage
PATH semi-automatically, as follows:
1. make a symlink in ~/bin to each subdirectory containing programs.
For example, if I install foopkg in ~/foopkg/ and the foo program is
~/foopkg/bin/foo , I symlink ~/bin/foopkg -> ../foopkg/bin .
2. this snippet very early in my .bashrc adds each such subdirectory to
the PATH:
case $PATH in
(*/rc-scripts*)
:
;;
(*)
PATH=$PATH:$( find ~/bin -type l -xtype d | paste -sd: )
;;
esac
The first case is there to prevent recursion, as I know that rc-scripts
will always be one of the symlinks.
hth,
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