At Tue, 2 Jun 2009 08:41:48 -0400, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> Forgive me if this has been discussed elsewhere, but I've been extremely
> busy of late and haven't really been reading the PLT lists.
>
> I just did an "svn up" followed by "mkdir build; cd build; ../src/configure
> --prefix=$HOME/Applications/plt", only to learn that configure no longer
> supports --prefix on OS X.
>
> What's going on here? How do I do a non-in-place build?
You should have received the following error message:
ERROR: --prefix not allowed for a Mac OS X build, unless either
--enable-xonx is supplied (to create a Unix-style
build), or
--enable-macprefix is supplied (to allow a Mac-style
installation, even though --prefix is normally used
for Unix-style installations)
So, you want `--enable-macprefix'.
We disabled `--prefix' by default on Mac OS X, because it doesn't quite
produce the layout that a Unix user would expect. The `--enable-macprefix'
flag lets you use `--prefix' anyway.
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