How to install Xfce from source to local prefix

[Mike Massonnet]

2009/11/18 Juha <kautto.juha at kolumbus.fi>:
> 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:

Ah, right, into the prefix /usr/local/xfce. Sorry I thought
/usr/local. DBus is probably not looking for services in that prefix.
And I wonder how to do that. The service files (with the apps to run,
etc) are in $prefix/share/dbus-1/services/.

Perhaps XDG_DATA_DIRS is what you need to set, in addition to
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS. Check out the basedir spec for the info:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html.

Mike

>>
>> 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
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