Panel/Taskbar idea: embarrassingly basic newbie question

[Marv Boyes]

Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 15:51, Marv Boyes wrote:
>
>>This looks exactly like what I've been wanting for my own setup. My 
>>trouble is that I've never been able to successfully compile and install 
>>anything (xfce-related or otherwise) from source on my Mandrake 9.2 
>>machine.
>>
>>I almost hate to have to ask-- but can anyone tell me _where_ I ought to 
>>unpack this tarball before trying to compile and install it?
>
> 
> 
> Having lived in the Mandrake world for the past two years, I know the
> feeling; I've had to manually upgrade my automake, autoconf, make,
> aclocal and the likes in order to compile progs properly; now that I'm
> on 10.0 OE it's a bit easier; but overall, what I do is I unpack and
> compile things under the /usr/src directory and then always use the
> settings:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
> 

So I'm guessing, based on what you've said here and what I've read on 
the Goodies page, that I'll want the xfce4-taskbar-plugin directory in 
/usr/src, and my command ought to look like this:

./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install

No?

Next question: assuming this utterly fails to work (I hate to be such a 
fatalist; but like I said, compiling & installing from source just 
doesn't work for me...), is there any easy way to clean up the mess left 
behind?

Thanks much; you folks are the greatest.

Marv
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