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Re: Xconq 7.3 branch created!
- To: Keir Novik <K dot E dot Novik at qmw dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Xconq 7.3 branch created!
- From: Stan Shebs <shebs at shebs dot cnchost dot com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 05:11:58 -0700
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- Reply-To: shebs at shebs dot cnchost dot com
Keir Novik wrote:
>
> On 12 Jun 2000, Roland Roberts wrote:
>
> > Uhm, can't you fix the /var thing via --sharedstatedir or
> > --localstatedir; I haven't used those, but I know there are variables
> > by that name which should point to the /var hierarchy.
>
> I think it would be useful to have a configure option to turn off all of
> the things that require superuser access. How about --private-install,
> which sets the default prefix to something like ~/apps, puts the scores
> files in there, and disables the chown/chgrp/chmod commands.
We can't do arbitrary new arguments to configure; that's part of what we
gave up by going to autoconf. I tried this and it seemed to work, albeit
with an unimportant complaint at the end:
./configure --prefix=/tmp --enable-alternate-scoresdir=/tmp
make
make install GAMEUID=shebs GAMEGRP=users
My usual mode, however, is not to install at all. The env vars XCONQLIB
and XCONQ_SCORES together override the only two system paths that Xconq
uses, and install doesn't do any processing beside copying files and
setting permissions.
Stan