Moore, Garron wrote:
>More simply put, FVWM seems to embed its install location into itself which is making it hard for me to do the following. If I was able to do the following, my requirements would basically be satisfied:
>
>tar xzf fvwm-2.5.10.tar.gz
>cd fvwm-2.5.10
>./configure --prefix=/opt/fvwm (or whatever options necessary)
>make
>make install
>mv /opt/fvwm /newfolder/othernewfolder/fvwm
>
>
>And then I would like to be able to run fvwm by doing
>/newfolder/othernewfolder/fvwm/bin/fvwm
>
>
Probably a silly question, but can you not just do the move and make a
symbolic link from the compiled build location?
./configure --prefix=/opt/fvwm && make && make install
mv /opt/fvwm /newfolder/fvwm
ln -s /newfolder/fvwm /opt/fvwm
/opt/fvwm/bin/fvwm
Regards,
Fred.
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Received on Sat Jul 17 2004 - 03:03:28 BST