[geeks] Irix's wonky install

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> So, I'm not quite sure what it's talking about with that $ROOT, but it
> doesn't actually seem to be talking about the environmental variable
> named ROOT, since that's not set, either before or after running
> install, nor in my shell.  Perhaps getting rid of $ROOT would make it
> work properly, but I have no thoughts on how to do that.  Help?

If it's not set, it is assumed that ROOT is to be '/'.  Set ROOT to be
the base-install directory of your application, and then specify the
argument to -dir as a relative pathname.

-- 
Jonathan Patschke
 "you know, there are people who like having potatoes and jellyjars shoved up
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