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From: dgreen@hilo.cs.ucla.edu (Dan R. Greening)
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Subject: Re: R5 wish (really: how to install X11R4 in non-standard dirs)
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Date: 7 Jun 91 17:02:50 GMT
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In article <1855@wsc-sun.BOEING.COM> cek@wsc-sun.boeing.com (Conrad Kimball) writes:
>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).

[patch which only changes mit/config/site.def]

This patch is slightly incomplete.  I wrote an extensive patch to compile
X11R4 libraries and clients on RS6000s, some of which relocates X11
to /usr/local/bin/X11 and friends.  We needed to do this to allow both X11R3
and X11R4 to coexist on the RS6000.  I wouldn't call someone an inferior
sysadmin for not wanting to do it.  Figuring out the ins-and-outs of imake
isn't exactly in the mainstream of system administration.

In any event, X11 clients will not be able to fetch bitmaps out of
/usr/local/include/X11/bitmaps unless you fix Xt's Imakefile.  I would
recommend that you take a look at my changes for hints if you want to 
relocate X.  They are in ibm-rs6000.fix1 and ibm-rs6000.fix2 on export.

Regards,
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