On 16 Jul 2004 13:55:44 -0700, Moore, Garron wrote:
>
> We are using Solaris. We are using version 2.5.10. All of the machines
> run the same version of Solaris and use SPARC processors. Some machines
> are being deployed to and do not have compilers installed. Ideally,
> fvwm will be installed into its own folder. This folder would then be
> copied onto a different machine, in a completely different location.
>
> Part of what I want to achieve is to have fvwm installed at some
> location, say /foo/bar/fvwm/ in a way that I can move that fvwm folder
> somewhere else, say into /other/directory/fvwm/ and still have a
> working installation, but just in a different location.
>
> Our setup is difficult to explain, but I'm giving it my best shot. In
> our system, we use environment variables to find out where software is
> located. For example, FVWM could be moved to any location on the disk,
> but as long as $FVWM_ROOT is set to that location, we want to be able
> to run $FVWM_ROOT/bin/fvwm.
This is an unreasonable requirements. If you want to relocate software
after it is installed (do you ever do this? or do you do this often?),
you should repeat the build procedure with a different install prefix.
The building is very standard. On the compiler-capable host execute:
./configure --prefix=/the/install/prefix/for/fvwm [other params]
make
Then you have 2 choices. If the source directory is shared by all
hosts (suggested, you may even share it read-only), then just login to
all mashines and execute the remaining command in the source directory:
make install
No compilation or any similar activity is done on "make install".
An alternative way (less convenient if you ask me) is to continue with
"make install" on the build host, just specify the temporary directory:
make install prefix=/tmp/temp-fvwm-prefix
Then transfer /tmp/temp-fvwm-prefix dir to /the/install/prefix/for/fvwm
on all target machines using ftp or whatever you like.
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Fri Jul 16 2004 - 16:21:45 BST