Posted by micheletrecaffe on Nov 04, 2023; 5:50am
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/native-Linux-starter-on-tarball-build-tp5723791p5723795.html

Hi, and thanks for the reply.

...Right-clicking and selecting 'Properties' tells me that the 'librecad' in /unix is a 'shared directory' and weighs in at ~174MB. The 'CLEAN' script defines it as librecad.app (rm -rf LibreCAD.app), which is where I got that from - it's in the list of things that the script removes (and, regrettably, the script does indeed remove it).

In any event, yes, I am keeping the /unix folder and its goodies, and have created a launcher pointing to /unix/librecad.

Until now, I had always understood 'build' and 'install' as at least part of the same process, perhaps even synonyms. But I see that what I have is a running instance of LibreCAD, but it did not self-integrate into my menus, nor did it distribute itself into my /usr folder so -- not synonyms after all.

If I want to clean things up a bit, can I get rid of the Makefiles that are scattered through LibreCAD's file system? And is there anything else I should get rid of?

Thanks