From help-request at octave dot org Mon Sep 20 08:01:24 2004
Subject: Re: Octave advocacy
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Josep_Mon=E9s_i_Teixidor?= <jmones at puntbarra dot com>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Javier_Ar=E1ntegui?= <arante at tecal dot udl dot es>
CC: help at octave dot org
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:58:41 +0200

Javier Arántegui wrote:

>Usually the problem is not the compilation process itself what I find 
>difficult. It's uninstalling software what I think it's more complex. 
>Sometimes there is a 'make unistall' with the source but many times not. 
>Lately I have solved this problem creating myself the RPM files. To do this, 
>I am using 'checkinstall' instead 'make install' in the compilation process. 
>Checkinstall is one of the packets of my favourite distribution (SUSE 9.1 
>Pro) and can be found at <http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/>.
>
>  
>
Hi,

If projects use autotools, as Octave does, you can use --prefix 
parameter to configure to install the software to a desired directory. 
This way you can delete that directory:

For instance:
./configure --prefix=/home/javier/binaries/octave --enable-shared 
--disable-static
make
make install

If destination is writable by current user you can "make install" 
without becoming root.

You'll need to add /home/javier/binaries/octave/bin to your path in 
order to run it just typing octave.

Regards,

Josep



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