I install them in ~/p/... and have a script that walks any directory under ~/p/ and if it has a 'bin' subdirectory, it adds it to the path, otherwise it adds th

I install them in ~/p/... and have a script that walks any directory under ~/p/ and if it has a 'bin' subdirectory, it adds it to the path, otherwise it adds the directory itself to the path. (it also wipes existing ~/p/ paths before the search, enabling it to also act as a path updater) So after that it's `./configure --prefix=$HOME/p/`, `make install` and `build-personal-path`