Makefile question

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jun 13):
> Oh, I didn't mean that. Both the configure script and the application 
> Makefile are working. What I mean is,
> that the configure script doesn't let me to specify --libdir, --bindir, ...
> Thus a lot of files would be installed directly under the default 
> ${PREFIX}, which is /usr/local, that's why I
>
> would like to specify a separated subdirectory under the ${PREFIX}, but my
> CONFIGURE_ARGS=--prefix=${PREFIX}/appname doesn't work, but I don't know 
> why.

Yes, that should have worked.  Does it do what you want if you manually
run ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/appname ?  If not, then the
configure script of the Makefile is broken, and you will need to patch
it or install the files yourself.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com