Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On 10/17/2008 09:31 AM, Martin Rubey wrote:
> > A remotely similar problem: make install (at least with ecl) requires 
> > presence
> > of *source* tree, which posed some problems here in Hannover.
> 
> I don't know for sure, but I tend to see this as a bug. But thinking 
> twice... you usually type "./configure && make && make install". So you 
> most probably have the sources at your disposal. You surely mean some 
> other use case. Would be nice to be a bit more precise in the first place.

The procedure here worked as follows:

* compile (as ordinary user) on a user machine
* copy it to a server machine (which has different architecture) with special
  priviledges (I'm not sure whether root was enough here)
* make install on the server machine.

> And if I have some software that would with
> 
>    ./configure --prefix=~/software
> 
> write anywhere outside ~/software, I would throw that software away 
> since it is dangerous.

well, prefix is usually just /usr/local.  If you have some program in
usr/local/fricas, it will be removed...

It's not so important to me, though.

Martin


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