Missing steps in building from source.
RennyDemmy opened this issue · 7 comments
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Dear Airblader,
I followed your guide to install i3-gaps on Debian, only to fail. This person, however, made a more comprehensive guide. Is it okay to implement this guide?
Link: https://lottalinuxlinks.com/how-to-build-and-install-i3-gaps-on-debian/
Regards,
IntolerantRenny
Which step exactly is missing? The only differences are the prefix, which the post explains they do differently and depends on preferences and distro anyway, and the install step, which I intentionally don't include.
The instructions in the wiki are generic. I don't want overly specific instructions because people who don't know what they're doing shouldn't build from source in the first place, but rather ask their distributions to package i3-gaps. Unfortunately Debian is a very stubborn distribution.
@dsyates In your article you misspelled my username in the GitHub URL.
Also if @dsyates sees this, here's the answer to one of their questions in the post: https://github.com/Airblader/i3/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions#why-doesnt-i3-gaps-change-the-name-of-the-binaries
I will fix the mispelling
misspelling* ...dang it.
That's intentional, because that's not building it anymore, that's installing it — something you shouldn't do unless you know how to do it anyway. Thanks for opening the issue, but I'd prefer to keep it this way as to not lead more users to install things randomly into their system. :-)
Which step exactly is missing? The only differences are the prefix, which the post explains they do differently and depends on preferences and distro anyway, and the install step, which I intentionally don't include.
The instructions in the wiki are generic. I don't want overly specific instructions because people who don't know what they're doing shouldn't build from source in the first place, but rather ask their distributions to package i3-gaps. Unfortunately Debian is a very stubborn distribution.@dsyates In your article you misspelled my username in the GitHub URL.
What about "sudo ninja install"? I'm sure that should've been in the guide...
^ See my comment above