list of installed files during "make install"

[Martin Laberge]

On Monday 06 October 2008 12:30:15 P Kapat wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Glenn R Williams <gloonie at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > You can also do:
> >
> > make -n install
> >
> > or
> >
> > make -n install > output.txt 2>&1
> >
> > which will just print out (or write to a file) what it's doing and not
> > actually install.
> 
> Thanks Glenn, that is what I was looking for, should've read the man
> pages more carefully!
> 
> But as others have mentioned, checkinstall seems to be a more
> appropriate procedure. I'll have to dig into the details of
> checkinstall. The thing is that I use a lot of software on my office
> machine (RHEL 5) where I do not have sudo access. So, I've to
> "install" (ie compile from source OR unpack the rpm files) them in my
> local directory. A properly automated checkinstall should be a huge
> help.
> Thanks to James, Nils, and Derek.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards
> PK
> --------------------------------------
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> 

a simple use of checkinstall:


cd mydirectory
configure
make
checkinstall

# you then have a .tgz a .rpm or a .deb in your directory

# install package as usual

dpkg -i mypackage.deb	### or wathever other method


(for sure, you edited your /etc/checkinstallrc BEFORE,
 to make sure the defaults are all ok ) (ex: select tgz,rpm,deb)

there are few params to check, and even less to change on first use.
edit the file, read it, correct a default when you are sure what you do.
when not sure, dont touch it.

2 minutes config, endless uses... endless personal packages ready to put there.

-- 
Martin Laberge
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30 Years of Unix Admin, and still learning...