Re: FVWM: installing...

From: Martin Cartwright <M.Cartwright_at_Queens-Belfast.AC.UK>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 15:03:06 +0100 (BST)

On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, David Kennedy wrote:

->A simple suggestion for those, like me, who compile FVWM
->for personal use only. Note that I've no idea about
->syntax etc, I'm making a general suggestion.
->
->Could we have a line in the Fvwm.tmpl file like:
->
->#define USER_DIR = /home/dcjk/
->
->Allowing something like
->#ifdef USER_DIR
->#define FvwmBinDir $USER_DIR/bin
->#define FvwmDir $USER_DIR/bin/modules
->etc
->else
->normal default setup for system wide installation.
->
->Then I wouldn't have to define the same path over and over...
->and I always spell one of them wrongly!

Sounds like Dave..

But seriously folks.. He's got a point. But isn't it planned to switch
to GNU autoconf??? If this is done properly, we can run it with

configure --prefix /home/imc

and it'll do all that automagically..


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Received on Fri Aug 22 1997 - 09:04:09 BST

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