On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 04:09:35PM -0700, Moore, Garron wrote:
> What you have explained below is not an option for us. We can't assume the location that they are putting it. I can't even assume that they have root access or write permissions in /usr/local or /opt. Given this, do you have any recommendations? I would be willing to create a script that goes into any file where the path is stored and replaces it.
>
> I realize that what I'm asking is somewhat unique. I would really appreciate any advice that you could give that would help me accomplish what I need to.
>
I haven't seen the sources, but if fvwm uses hardcoded directories then
the end users will either need to have root access to install it or have
a compiler so that they can recompile it for their system requirements,
or like someone else suggested, let them install wherever they want and
make temporary links from /tmp each time you want to run it (may be a
problem though letting multiple users run fvwm at the same time).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Garron Moore
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mikhael Goikhman [mailto:migo_at_homemail.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 3:40 PM
> To: Moore, Garron
> Cc: FVWM Users
> Subject: Re: FVWM: Changing FVWM's location
>
>
> On 16 Jul 2004 15:26:40 -0700, Moore, Garron wrote:
> >
> > I don't just want to move the location for the sake of moving it. The
> > disk layout of end system that will be using FVWM is unknown to me. I
> > have no knowledge of their filesystem layout and directory structure.
> > I need to prepare FVWM so that wherever they want to place it on their
> > disk, it will work as long as they have the environment variable
> > $FVWM_ROOT pointed at the place they copied it to. They will not have
> > a compiler on their system to rebuild based on their location choice.
>
> You may freely assume that /usr/local/fvwm (or /opt/fvwm) is the location allocated for FVWM on any unix system, just use it. Require to setup one symlink at this location to the actual prefix.
>
No you can't. This would be true for red hat systems with root access
but in general would be false (debian for example doesn't even have
/opt).
> Regards,
> Mikhael.
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