Simon Kitching wrote:
Hi,
A “–prefix=/usr” parameter is passed to most makefiles, but the book
never explains why.
AIUI, the reason is: to override the default prefix of |/usr/local|.
Many packages default to installing in “/usr/local” which is sensible as
they are assuming you are running a typical “packaged” distribution (eg
redhat/debian) and so should not mix locally-compiled binaries with
package-managed binaries. This is not the case for LFS, so overriding
prefix is usually required.
If I am right, then maybe it is worth adding this brief explanation into
the LFS book somewhere?
Users should know this before starting LFS.
-- Bruce
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