Installing into user directory

[dt1973]

Hi!

I'm trying to install https://github.com/cryptodotis/irssi-otr into my user directory. It requires libotr-4.1.0, but my admin prefers not to use backports, so I managed to install it into ~/libotr (https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/libotr-4.1.0.tar.gz).

But now how do I actually install irssi-otr? I tried ~/irssi-otr$ ./configure --prefix="/home/dt1973/libotr/usr" but I'm getting checking for libotr headers version 4.x >= 4.0.0... not present.

Anybody know what to do?

[dt1973]

What a nightmare. Here's how I did it:

• Make sure we find Irssi:

% cd /home/dt1973/
% ln -s irssi-0.8.17 irssi

• Manually set IRSSI_DIST to /home/dt1973/irssi-0.8.17 in irssi-otr/src/Makefile.am
• There was a typo in libgcrypt's ./configure --help. In order to include libgpg-error you have to use --with-gpg-error-prefix and not --with-libgpg-error-prefix
• The rest was pretty straight forward:

% cd /home/dt1973/irssi-otr-src
./configure --with-libotr-prefix=/home/dt1973/libotr --with-libotr-inc-prefix=/home/dt1973/libotr/include --with-libgcrypt-prefix=/home/dt1973/libgcrypt --with-irssi-headers=$HOME --prefix=/home/dt1973/irssi-otr 

Big thanks to Freenode #irssi!