--prefix and --exec-prefix

>>>>> "frederik" == frederik  <[email protected]> writes:

    > 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.


Try 
    ./configure --disable-multiplatform ...

Regards,
  Reinhard

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