Re: installing apps automatically in the ~/GNUstep/Apps folder

[Nicola Pero]

If you add

GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DIR = $(GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT)

at the beginning of the top-level GNUmakefile, the application should get
automatically installed into ~/GNUstep/Apps.

I'm not sure if this is as cool as what you describe ... but it makes 100%
sure you know where you are installing things ... :-)

> Hi, -
> 
> I was playing around a bit on my gstep system and noticed that openapp
> also searches the ~/GNUstep/Apps folder, now I have a question:
> When doing 'make install' for an application, would it be possible that
> the make prorgam checks whether the executing user is authorized to
> write to the system wide Apps direcotries, and - if not - automatically
> installs the program in the users ~/GNUstep/Apps folder?
> 
> I think that would be pretty cool and would definitively help
> administrators as well as users.
> 
> Greetings,
> Martin