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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers --prefix question Post 302312256 by RobertSubnet on Thursday 30th of April 2009 06:31:24 PM
Old 04-30-2009
--prefix question
OK, now I just feel plain silly asking this. But I am very much a beginner at compiling and installing Unix software, so...

When setting the prefix, do you also have to specify the directory the files reside in? For example, lets say I am installing cURL in /usr/local

Would I set the prefix as:

--prefix=/usr/local/cURL
or
--prefix=/usr/local

I ask because I was doing it the second way, that is:
--prefix=/usr/local
and didn't have any problems.

Then I tried installing Apache2 in /usr/local and set the prefix as:
--prefix=/usr/local

Well after running make install, I had all of the Apache2 directories in /usr/local rather than:
/usr/local/apache2

What a mess that was!

So in the prefix flag is it necessary to specify the path and the directory to put the files in or does it depend upon what is being installed?

Thanks!
~Robert
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

orbit2-config

ORBIT2-CONFIG(1)					      General Commands Manual						  ORBIT2-CONFIG(1)

NAME

       orbit2-config - helper script for building with ORBit2

SYNOPSIS

       orbit2-config [ --libs ] [ --cflags ] [ --prefix=dir ] [ --exec-prefix=dir ] [ --use-service=service ] [ client | server ]

       orbit2-config [ --version ] [ --help ]

DESCRIPTION

       orbit2-config  is  a tool that is used to determine the compiler and linker flags that should be used to compile and link programs that use
       the orbit2 library. It is also used internally by the .m4 macros for GNU autoconf that are included with orbit2.

       The argument client is used for compiling an orbit2 client, and server for compiling an orbit2 server.  In most cases, you will use one (or
       both) of the options --cflags or --libs (depending on whether you are compiling or linking.

OPTIONS

       orbit2-config accepts the following options:

       --version
	      Print the currently installed version of library on the standard output.

       --help Print a usage summary.

       --cflags
	      Print the compiler flags that are necessary to compile a program using the specified library.

       --libs Print the linker flags that are necessary to link with the specified library.

       --prefix=PREFIX
	      If  specified,  use PREFIX instead of the installation prefix that library was built with when computing the output for the --cflags
	      and --libs options. This option is also used for the exec prefix if --exec-prefix was not specified. This option must  be  specified
	      before any --libs or --cflags options.

       --exec-prefix=PREFIX
	      If  specified,  use  PREFIX  instead  of	the installation exec prefix that library was built with when computing the output for the
	      --cflags and --libs options.  This option must be specified before any --libs or --cflags options.

       --use-service=SERVICE
	      If specified, provide additional flags (if any) for using the specified service.	Known values for SERVICE  are:	module	CosNaming,
	      interfaces LNameComponent, LName.

SEE ALSO

       orbit-idl-2(1), /usr/share/doc/liborbit2-dev, http://orbit-resource.sourceforge.net, http://www.omg.org.

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C)  2001, 2002 Dick Porter <dick@acm.org> and Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>

       This manual was originally written for orbit2-config by Chris Waters <xtifr@debian.org> for Debian GNU/Linux.

Version 2.3.100 						 18 December 2001						  ORBIT2-CONFIG(1)
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