>> It's up the application to decide how to use prefix variable. Most >> applications are respecting it. > > Up to now, I didn't find one that doesn't. And if so, it'll receive a bug > report right away. > >> But you make it sound like it's >> impossible to not respect it, which is not true. > > Well, if you don't, your package won't be spread widely until you've fixed it. > You'll always find people who install sw as unprivileged user. If they can't > install a package, they file a bug. Even some package managers build and > install sw to a temporary directory as an unprivileged user to avoid messing > up the system. > >> I can write automake >> rules which completely ignore prefix. > > Which in the end means the unprivileged user can't install your package. And > even as root, I wouldn't. Nobody does this. It's a hipothetical case. > > Bye... > > Dirk
Is this the right thing to do? $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make # make install - Grant
