[X2Go-Dev] x2go without root on server

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Ralf,

On Fr 09 Nov 2012 09:56:19 CET Ralf Hemmecke wrote:

>>> Now could you even tell me approximatly in which files I would  
>>> have to look?
>
>> /usr/lib/x2go/* They are less then 2000 lines of code!
>
> Oh, I thought, you would rather point me to the respective source files
> which (most probably) lives in x2goserver.git.

x2goserver.git/x2goserver/lib/ for the 3.1.1.x release series (Git branch).

Note that in current master I currently refactor the code into proper  
Perl modules. This will be easier to fork for user space X2Go, I  
presume. I'd recommend to stick to the 3.1.1.x stuff for now.

> If I want to provide a patch for upstream, I should probably look there.

If you want to provide a patch, then you have to handle the Perl  
module based code in the master branch, I guess. However, this is in  
the middle of transition, currently.

> Since the install procedure might put quite a lot of (even unrelated)
> things into /usr/lib/ , may I ask whether there is (apart from the
> debian binary installation procedure) some script or Makefile that is
> responsible for putting everything in place?

Yes, there is a Makefile:

   x2goserver.git/x2goserver/Makefile

> In fact, I'd like to know what the usual way to *compile* and to
> *install* x2goserver (or anything that I would need for userspace
> installation) actually is. I'd like to start compiling and installing
> x2goserver from the git repository sources as foouser in his $HOME. So
> as a first step I'd like to disregard all debian specific installation
> parts.

   $ git clone git://code.x2go.org/x2goserver.git
   $ cd x2goserver
   $ make && sudo make install

> Am I right that x2goserver uses the standard
>
>   cd x2goserver; ./configure && make && make install

No configure script, yet!!!

> ? The INSTALL file in that directory doesn't say something about
> "configure", but that's probably because it refers to the enduser that
> extracts x2goserver from a tar.gz file and not from the git repository.

The enduser hopefully can install X2Go server from one of the  
available distro archives...

> Anyway, I'll probably have to introduce a configure file to later allow
> "--prefix=/installation/directory" as argument. Can upstream live with
> that our should it rather be avoided?

If the configure file works for system-wide installations, then yes.

I guess, that you are aware that you have to test both cases (user  
space X2Go and system-wide X2Go). So, I guess, now it is time to power  
up your virtualization software and get x2goserver installed before  
starting to re-code it.


Greets,
Mike


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