[Gambas-user] Form embedding, building devel version

[Benoit Minisini]

On Tuesday 11 January 2005 23:00, Rob Kendrick wrote:
> Rob Kendrick wrote:
> > I've now built 1.9.1 perhaps a dozen times, and installed it just
> > as many times, and still not got the IDE out of it.  I'm running
> > Ubuntu Hoary if that helps spawn any suggestions.
>
> I appear to have found the problem.  "make" doesn't actually compile the
> IDE, "make install" does, and "make install" tries to do rootly things
> (symlink stuff into /usr/bin in this case) even if it's not running
> rootly, because it doesn't have any need to, which stops the
> installation before it's built gambas2.  Could this be changed?  I don't
> like installing stuff from source into /, because they can be a pain to
> remove again.

The only stuff that is installed by this packages in / (like you say) is four 
symbolic links in /usr/bin. Without these links, things won't work. The rest 
of the packages is installed under the directory you pass to './configure' 
with the '--prefix' option (/usr/local by default now).

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini
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