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From: cek@wsc-sun.boeing.com (Conrad Kimball)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: R5 wish
Keywords: r5
Message-ID: <1855@wsc-sun.BOEING.COM>
Date: 4 Jun 91 15:57:07 GMT
References: <49747@ut-emx.uucp> <1991Jun2.234509.1263@emisle.uucp>
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In article <1991Jun2.234509.1263@emisle.uucp>, dvb@emisle.uucp (David Van Beveren) writes:

|> I know you can put move most of X by editing 20 or so lines in 2 or 3
|> different parts of the Imake environment. But, most users of X are not X
|> hackers, and this is not clearly documented anywhere, and even if it was,
|> why make it so difficult? Is it the elite attitude of some system programmers
|> "IF it is too difficult for you, then you are just a inferior sysadmin.."
|> that causes this? I am not an X hack, although I have been programming with X
|> for about 3 years steady. I could probably figure out how to do it without
|> too much trouble, but why should it require any effort at all?

I share this opinion too.  For what it's worth, though, I've been installing
X in a non-standard location for more than a year now, using the following
simple patch.  It simply builds X to know it lives in a directory tree rooted
somewhere other than /usr.  There is still the  drawback that this alternate
"home" directory must be compiled in from the beginning.  Of course, users
must also know about this alternate home, so they can include the proper
directory in their PATH, and use the proper -I and -L parameters when building
their own X software (though this latter problem doesn't arise if they use
xmkmf, which *does* know about this alternate home directory).

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This patch configures the MIT X-Window Version 11 Release 4 tape to have
X-Window live in the directory tree rooted in "/home/other/X11/R4/sun4/usr"
rather than "/usr".  This allows X11R4 to coexist with another version of
X-Window that may already be installed on the system.


*** mit/config/site.def.orig	Sun Dec 17 15:06:24 1989
--- mit/config/site.def	Fri Sep 21 12:21:55 1990
***************
*** 144,146 ****
--- 144,153 ----
  #ifndef SharedLibXext
  #define SharedLibXext NO	/* XXX - haven't made it sharable yet */
  #endif
+ 
+ /*
+  * Install X11R4 under /home/other/X11/R4/sun4 rather than /
+  */
+ #ifndef	DestDir
+ #define	DestDir		/home/other/X11/R4/sun4
+ #endif
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