From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Software/HD ecology Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:05:31 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84k7iethk4.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: <041220020952400758%ajanta@no.spam> <84bs3xsyi8.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <071220021155280606%ajanta@no.spam> <5ld6obj8il.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <101220021125583826%ajanta@no.spam> <111220021253524057%ajanta@no.spam> <5l65u0i8zj.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <111220022053507599%ajanta@no.spam> <84k7ifo3s2.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <87u1hjdwta.fsf@hurd.crasseux.com> <84fzt3hvk8.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039771074 12348 80.91.224.249 (13 Dec 2002 09:17:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:17:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18MlxA-0003Cq-00 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:17:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Mlq6-0005v4-06 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 04:10:34 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd951f511.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd951f511.dip.t-dialin.net (217.81.245.17) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1039770334 36464882 217.81.245.17 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2vCwuPawPmjcN0DvYDA3gkw0gGQ= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.mac.apps:348807 gnu.emacs.help:108079 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4611 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4611 David Masterson writes: > So you can install as many versions of the software that you need by > just setting the configure "prefix" to the appropriate "Version" > directory before doing the "make install". Then, using pkglink, you > can pick which version of a package gets symlinked into the main area > (/usr/local, but you could have more than one). So if two people want to use different Java versions then we would need two `main areas'? Hm. -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)