Re: Choose destination directory at installation

On 19/10/06, Sauterel Fabrice <[email protected]> wrote:
> I typed "make install prefix=/myDir/ exec-prefix=/myDir/ " instead of
> exec_prefix=/myDir/ (underscore!!!!!) then it is working well. That is,
> everything is installed in /myDir/
> But then if I look, e.g., in the following file /myDir/lib/libnetsnmp.la
> it still contains this
> ....
> # Directory that this library needs to be installed in:
> libdir=/the_prefix_I_gave_to_the_configure_script/
> It also seems that sbin/snmpd still depends on the prefix I gave to the
> configure script.


That is correct.
The purpose of "prefix" and "exec_prefix" is to help with building packages,
where there may already be another installed version of the software on the same
system (which should not interfere with the version being packaged, or
vice versa).

These are purely temporary during the packaging process, and should be
invisible once the resulting package has been installed on the destination
system(s).

The final location of the software should match what was specified to configure.
It *might* be possible to install some things elsewhere (especially if binaries
are linked statically), but I can't help feeling that you're trying to
stretch the
installation process beyond what is reasonable.

Dave

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