making vars in bash script accessible from shell

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 09:59:31 EST
"Price, Erik" said:

>PS: is it possible to install "less" on this Solaris box without
>root access? It's a company server, and I'm not an admin.  I'm
>addicted to "less" for reading text files, but it doesn't seem to
>be on this machine.  However, I did find something called
>/opt/GCC281/bin/gcc so it seems I have access to a compiler....

'less', like all gnu utilities, uses autoconf/automake for 
[configur,build,install]ing the sources.  Therefore, you should have 
no problem doing something like this:

	$ ./configure --prefix=/home/erik
	$ make
	$ make install

Which will result in all these utilities being installed in:

	~erik/bin,etc,lib,sbin,man

etc.
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Seeya,
Paul
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