Hi,

On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:21:05 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'd like to install an experimental package with a different prefix,
> say /usr/local/test
> What should I write into the ebuild file?

I don't think the ROOT environment variable when emerging is what you
want. I think you can just append "--prefix=/usr/local/test" to the
call to "econf". All of this assumes usage of autoconf, of course.
Another common approach is to set DESTDIR to ${D}/usr/local/test for
"make install".

See http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1

-hwh
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