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Ewan Edwards <Edwards_Ewan_B at cat.com> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:
> For most of you this may seem so simple as to be not worth answering ... but I
> would still like an answer that makes some sense. Please keep in mind that I
> am not a computer programmer.
>
> Yesterday, I downloaded the tarball for a recent version of a fairly commonly
> used piece of software (dhcp-3.0.1rc11.tar.gz) to a RH7.3 box. After having
> a look at the README file and running the obligatory "./configure", "make",
> and "make install" commands (without error I might add), I now want to know
> what files I have actually 'installed' on this box. Can someone please tell
> me where I should look for some kind of list of what files (including man
> pages) have been generated and installed?
Three solutions to your immediate needs occur offhand:
1. make -n install | lpr
(print a list of what commands were performed, peruse result)
2. cd /usr/local && find . -ctime -2 -print
(find any files created in the last 2 days)
3. Most packages with a "./configure" script are using GNU autoconf.
The makefile will generally accept a "prefix" argument.
If you do
mkdir /tmp/notreallyusrlocal
make install prefix=/tmp/notreallyusrlocal
All the files will get installed under that directory, instead of
under /usr/local/.
You can then observe what files were created, without the
background noise of an existing /usr/local/ directory.
You could even use this approach to additionally detect if any
files in /usr/local were MODIFIED by the "make install", in
addition to new files that were created:
diff -rqs /usr/local /tmp/notreallyusrlocal
The long-term solution is to use GNU stow:
(OK, so that makes 4 solutions (AMONGST our solutions...))
Using this package, you install packages under
/usr/local/stow/<package-name-and-version>, then use the "stow"
utility to create symlinks in /usr/local/*. The stow utility can
"un-stow" the package when you want to upgrade.
eg.
make
make install prefix=/usr/local/stow/packagename
cd /usr/local/stow
stow -v packagename
--cjb
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