How to install Xfce from source to local prefix

[Juha]

Yves-Alexis Perez kirjoitti:
> On mar., 2009-11-17 at 17:35 +0200, Juha wrote:
>   
>> I have been trying to install Xfce 4.6.1 to my new Ubuntu 9.10 system 
>> into /usr/local/xfce, but failing miserably with: 
>>     
>
> Hey Juha,
>
> may I ask why you want to install Xfce 4.6.1 in an Ubuntu 9.10 system?
> It's already available in packages, so unless you want to go git master,
> I'm not sure it's worth it :)
>   
As I am developing Orage and some other tools for Xfce, it is easier
if I have it isolated into a known place. I need to have several versions
of Xfce available (4.2, 4.6 prod and 4.8 dev...) in order to test Orage
compatibility against them. If I install the (well working) xfce package,
it goes into standard places, which usually take preference and it is
much harder to change the version.
Now I just change a symbolic link and restart the session and I have new
version...

Juha