[SDL] SDL on Knoppix

[Samuel]

In the future, such questions should be directed towards Knoppix help 
channels.

There is no root password for knoppix.
to have configure changed the prefix do
./configure --prefix=/mnt/hda1

On Wednesday 12 May 2004 08:05 am, Mark Bishop wrote:
> Greets, I'm an Mac OS X/SDL developer whose decided to branch out into
> Linux after hitting far too many obstacles trying to dev for Win2k using
> MinGW...
>
> So, I'm a newbie to Knoppix, but I've found it a pretty easy dev
> platform for pure C/C++ (via KDevelop) and Pascal (via FreePascal), and
> I've just dl'd the RPMs and sources for SDL; I've been unable to install
> the RPMs using KPackage as I don't know the root password (although "su
> root" doesn't ask for the password???), so I'm trying to compile SDL
> from scratch...
>
> I've followed the rather terse instructions and have been able to get as
> far as "configure; make"; but the "make install" command tries to
> install stuff in "/usr/" which it unfortunately can't as that is on the
> Knoppix CD... is there any way to redirect the installation performed by
> "make install" to "/mnt/hda1/" rather than "/usr/"? I've tried looking
> at the help files for "make install", but there doesn't seem to be
> anything relevant...
>
> Thanks,
>
> 	Mark
>
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