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Re: Configure question


On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Will Sloan wrote:

> I have a simple question.  I remember reading somewhere that --prefix
> tells configure where the files are going to live, but there is another
> switch that tells configure where to install the files.  ie If I was
> trying to build a distribution I would want gcc to be configured to live
> in /usr/local but I really want to be installed in
> /burnnewcd/usr/local.  Any help would be great.
> 

Setting the environment variable DESTDIR during make install works for
some packages.

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