From: Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:04:58 GMT
Subject: Re: `./configure --XXdir=` ignored?
Message-ID: <c115fd3c0902261104x7f867d07v5ba917adbc826435@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpq4oyht85f.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
> Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> writes:
> I attempted to do this through
>>
>>     make configure
>>     ./configure --XXdir=/full/path/to/dir
>
> Did you actually type --XXdir, or is this XX just a way to mean
> something else? I don't see --XXdir mentionned anywhere.

Yes, it was just a placeholder.  I actually typed things like
--htmldir, --mandir, --bindir, etc.

>
> I use "./configure --prefix=$HOME/some/dir" and it works fine (make
> install-html installs to $prefix/share/doc/).

This works for me as well.  However, I was hoping for finer tuned
control than that through configure.  IE ~/bin ~/man ~/info etc.

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