SVN Installs

[Starclopsofish]

Quick question- If I install the version from SVN does this overwrite my stable release installation? If so is there an environment variable or something I can use to install elsewhere? I'm on Arch Linux 64-bit. Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere, a search was inconclusive. Thanks in advance!

[Raem_Lylar]

I dont know anything about Lunix.
But, may i suggest simply installing in a different directory from your stable build? That should effectivly separate the two versions (excluding requirements for openal).

[mcdebugger]

You can override default install path adding --prefix=/path/to/prefix to configure script options.
By default on many systems stable releases came in distros repos installs to "/usr" while "self-compiled" versions (including SVN) installs to "/usr/local/"
So if you want to have both versions installed and play them you may run program with full path
for example:
/usr/games/bin/warzone2100 or /usr/bin/warzone2100 (for stable distro's version)
/usr/local/bin/warzone2100 (for your svn revision)

and of course you can do something like this:

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./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix="/home/myname/usr"
make
make install

and then run binary from your home directory
you can also try

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PREFIX="/path/to/prefix" make install

[Starclopsofish]

Worked like a charm, thanks.

[Raem_Lylar]

Wow! All that just to change directories? I think i will stick to Windows after all...

[Starclopsofish]

Nah, it's not so bad! The benefits greatly outweigh the disadvantages, IMO. I'm sure it's just as verbose in a Windows CLI utility, it's just that in Windows you typically have a GUI to assist you I think there are some for Linux anyway, but I haven't looked into it. I figure using the command line more will be good for me.