Re: gEDA: geda cvs strategy

[Dan McMahill <dan-at-NOSPAMmcmahill_dot_net>]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:41:52AM -0500, Dan McMahill wrote:
> anyone have a particularly good strategy for building all
> of geda/gaf from CVS sources for testing _without_ it
> getting confused by an installation of a gaf snapshot and
> without overwriting that?  
> 
> Is there some option which lets you build the various
> bits without having to install each one?  I guess if
> nothing else I can use prefix=/opt/geda/devel and make
> sure /opt/geda/devel/bin comes first in my path when
> working with the CVS version.
 
I'll answer my own question here.  

Problem:  /usr/pkg is the prefix for all of my normal 3rd
party software I want installed to use the computer for "normal"
use.  This includes a geda installation as well as guile, gtk,
etc.  Building the CVS version now picks up things like
-I/usr/pkg/include for various dependencies, but now I can
pick up an old libgeda.

Solution:  Create a chroot sandbox for cvs work.  Now I 
can isolate the work environment completely from my normal
setup.  


-Dan

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