Re: Software/HD ecology

[David Masterson <dmaster@synopsys.com>]

>>>>> Luis Fernandes writes:
>>>>> "dmaster" == David Masterson <dmaster@synopsys.com> writes:

dmaster> The basic problem with this is that, unless you have a
dmaster> program like Stow to create the symlink farm, it will require
dmaster> that you modify your PATH(s) to include the packages that you
dmaster> install.

> Only /usr/local/bin needs to be in the user's path. After installing
> emacs, I manually make the links from /usr/local/bin to
> /usr/local/emacs-21.1/bin.  "make install" can easily make the links
> from /usr/local/bin to the actual package directory.

We're saying the same thing.  In your case, you manually make the
links.  In my case, I'd use Stow or Pkglink to create the links.  You
wouldn't want "make install" to do the links because it could wind up
overwriting the links from a previous install of the package.
Sometimes you want that, but sometimes you don't -- best to let a
separate program (like Stow) help you uninstall the old version and
install the new version into /usr/local.

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David Masterson                David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com
Sr. R&D Engineer               Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering           Sunnyvale, CA