[darcs-users] HowTo: darcs-unstable for single user

[Michael Fellinger]

Hi list and welcome in my first post,
This is just a quick write down for future reference and other people to learn.
I'm writing this after having going through these steps and i won't
put many comments or further help in this mail, see it as a rough
draft to potentially be added to the wiki.

# These two lines are specific for gentoo, but there should be
equivalents for other distributions, just see
http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/CategoryBinaries
$ sudo emerge --sync
$ sudo emerge darcs

$ mkdir ~/build
$ cd ~/build
$ darcs get --partial http://darcs.net/repo/unstable-hashed
$ cd unstable-hashed
$ mkdir -p ~/local/{usr,etc}
$ autoconf
$ ./configure --prefix=~/local/usr --sysconfdir=~/local/etc
$ make
$ make install

modify your ~/.bashrc
before the part for "# Test for an interactive shell.", change PATH to
look like following:
# [snip]
export PATH="$HOME/local/usr/bin:$PATH"
# [snap]

Test configuration from another machine via:
$ ssh example.net 'darcs -v'
2.0.0pre3 (unstable branch)

Presto, you have a _much_ faster

Hope this helps someone,
^ manveru