./configure command

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 10:55, Mike McCarty wrote:

> I also nearly always use --prefix, and install into my home
> directory, not to /usr/local. I've got a /home/jmccarty/usr/... tree.
> If anything goes bad, I just delete the directories altogether.
> There is NO UNINSTALL NEEDED.

This brings up another problem with packaging.  Anything I'd
be likely to compile myself these days is probably very
experimental and I might like to have 2 or more versions
to compare them or to have a known-good version if the
latest one blows up.  You can do that with many source
bundles with the --prefix option and using explict paths
to execute the programs.  How do you do it with RPM packaged
items?

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