On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:25:45 +0100, Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I just noticed that running configure says: > > > All required packages were found. You may now run the following > > commands to compile and install notmuch: > > > > make > > sudo make install > > I think that this is a very poor advice in general and we shouldn't > give it to users. I know that the default prefix is /usr/local, but > installing notmuch this way makes it very hard to uninstall it later > (there is no uninstall target). Too bad there is no better 'default' way to do things -- configure - make - make install is the way most software provides their installation sequence. But where does 'sudo make install' work by default? on Ubuntu, on new Fedoras. Where else ? The 'uninstall target' is also hard problem as it would require configured source directory (and possibly information gathered during installation to know what to uninstall) -- To do a separate uninstallation too that is installed during notmuch installation would be something I don't remember seeing done in unix environments ever... > If someone decides to install notmuch from source and later on using > his or her favorite package manager, the once installed notmuch in > /usr/local will still be found and before the one in /usr and thus be > preferred. Hmm, I've screwed my PATH setting as there usr/local/* comes after /usr/* ;/ > Maybe we should mention stow (https://www.gnu.org/s/stow/)? Hmm, in addition to mentioning it there should be step-by-step information how to proceed with it to compile and install notmuch (and all the prerequisities required) using stow. That should not be too hard -- just log the installation steps. Maybe SomeBody(TM) takes some effort there ? > > Justus Tomi