On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 23:13 +0200, Mihaela wrote:
- made a directory where I intend to keep all the dev versions, I
named it inkscape and put in /root/
This is unrelated to Inkscape, but please don't run as root. A lot of the security techniques used by Linux in general rely on the user being unprivileged. Being root breaks this assumption, and thus makes your system more vulnerable overall.
Im curious, what do autogen.sh and prefix='pwd' do? Is using vcs different from downloading source snapshots?
Basically it makes it so that the directory is relative to the directory that you're in. This is useful for me, as I tend to have pretty deep directory hierarchies and want everything to be together. It may not be as useful for other folks, but it does make the instructions generic to where ever you put your install.
--Ted