D Shared Software System version 0.4 released!

BCS BCS at pathlink.com
Mon Nov 20 11:06:03 PST 2006


Gregor Richards wrote:
>> What does <DSSS prefix> default to? The install dir of DSSS? I didn't 
>> set it to anything at all (Not on the command line, no editing files, 
>> nada). How do I set <DSSS prefix> to something other than the default? 
>> Last time I tried" dsss ... --prefix=blah" I got errors.
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> The install dir of DSSS itself.  You can use the --prefix option to 
> install to a different prefix, but only with the 'install' command.
> 
> Also "blah" is a fairly strange prefix ;)
> 
> I didn't implement multi-prefix support into the net subset of commands 
> because it opens a huge can o' worms: A 'dsss net install' actually does 
> several installs (all dependencies), and often ends up depending on 
> things already installed, etc, etc, etc, the --prefix options would 
> either be complex or very limited.  If you need to fine-tune the prefix 
> of things installed from 'dsss net', just use 'dsss net fetch', 'dsss 
> build' and 'dsss install --prefix'.  A bit more complicated since it 
> doesn't do everything for you, but far more controllable :)
> 
>  - Gregor Richards

Actually I'm more interested in something like installing dsss in 
"c:\program files\dsss\" and having everything, by default, going to 
"c:\dmd\src\dsss" without having to tell it that every time.



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