DESTDIR works for both php and perl for a custom install location for the 
clients

make install DESTDIR=~/some/path/

For usage on each of the clients please see our wiki page 
http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/ThriftUsage

-Jake



On Aug 25, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Sammons, Mark wrote:

> Well, I'm using the download link on http://thrift.apache.org/download/ for 
> the .tar.gz bundle.  I've tried -- hard -- to navigate the jira page but am 
> having a hard time finding the list of resolved issues by release version.  
> There is no indication in the READMEs in the distro I downloaded of whether 
> additional flags need to be set for perl to be installed to a non-default 
> location.
> 
> For php, the README says:
> 
> $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'].'/packages/MyPackage/';
> 
> But this looks more like a way to use thrift php once it is installed. 
> 
> If you can point me to additional documentation that specifies these details, 
> I'd appreciate it; but I also suspect many users would find it helpful if 
> they were in thrift's READMEs. 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Mark
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Dmitriy Kargapolov [[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:15 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: installing Thrift
> 
> On 08/25/2011 12:07 PM, Sammons, Mark wrote:
>> Hi.
>> 
>> I'm trying to install Thrift v0.7.0 on a linux box running CENTOS 5.6.  I 
>> don't have sudo/root access, so want to install thrift to a non-default 
>> location.
>> 
>> The perl and php install locations don't appear to be set by the --PREFIX 
>> config option, and there doesn't appear to be documentation indicating what 
>> flags or environment variables should be set to override their defaults; 
>> please either let me know directly or point me to the relevant docs.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
> Wow!
> I see number of tickets dedicated to this and already resolved!
> THRIFT-534, THRIFT-528, THRIFT-1104....
> Is this still an issue?
> 

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