Re: Strange problem installing Swarm 1.3.1

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "LH" == Lorin Hochstein <address@hidden> writes:

LH> When I extract the Swarm sources (I put them in
LH> /usr/local/swarm-1.3.1), and tried to build it, I had to change
LH> the makefiles, which were looking for files in

There's a distinction between source, build, and install areas. 
Sometimes it is convenient to combine the first two, but it isn't
common to combine all of them.  

LH> ../swarm-1.3.1/etc/swarm

etc/swarm will be created by the `make install' target.  The place
that you want to install to is specified by the --prefix option to
configure.

I usually usually build Swarm in this way:

  $ SWARMSRCDIR=/src/swarm-1.3.1
  $ cd /build
  $ $SWARMSRCDIR/configure --srcdir=$SWARMSRCDIR --prefix=/usr/local 
--with-defaultdir=/usr/local
  $ make

..install it:

  $ make install

..and then use it:

  $ SWARMHOME=/usr/local; export SWARMHOME
  $ cd /src/swarmapps-1.3.1/heatbugs
  $ make

You should not have to modify a makefile.

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