Re: --prefix and --exec-prefix

Uli Fahrenberg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected], May 25, 18:14 -0700:

> I just managed to install tetex but there were a lot of hang-ups, for
> instance, it appears that even though I specify a special prefix for
> architecture independent executables with ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX
> --exec-prefix=$EPREFIX, it installs many binaries in
> $EPREFIX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu, rather than $EPREFIX/bin as I was led
> to believe by reading the output of ./configure --help and by
> experience with other programs. I suppose that I might have the same
> problem even if I only used --prefix, but I haven't tried.

The --disable-multiplatform switch should take care of this. As to
whether this is the Right Thing, I don't know.

uli

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GETCO 2004 -- http://www.math.auc.dk/~uli/getco04
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