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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 SUNOS

tiffsplit

tiffsplit(1)							   User Commands						      tiffsplit(1)

NAME

       tiffsplit - split a multi-image TIFF into single-image TIFF files

SYNOPSIS

       tiffsplit src.tif [prefix]

DESCRIPTION

       tiffsplit splits a multi-directory (page) TIFF file to create one or more single-directory (page) TIFF files. The output filenames are cre-
       ated by concatenating a prefix, a lexically ordered suffix in the range [aa-zz], and the suffix .tif. For example, xaa.tif,  xab.tif,  ...,
       xzz.tif. If a prefix is not specified on the command line, the default prefix x is used.

OPTIONS

       None

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       src.tif	       The name of the input file.

       prefix	       The prefix used to create the output filenames.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWTiff			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

	tiffinfo(1), tiffcp(1), libtiff(3)

NOTES

       Only a select set of "known tags" is copied when splitting.

       Updated by Breda McColgan, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.

SunOS 5.10							    26 Mar 2004 						      tiffsplit(1)
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