Xconq 7.3 branch created!

[Stan Shebs]

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