Re: $prefix variable

Arcady Genkin (a.genkin@utoronto.ca)
31 Jul 1999 15:58:55 -0400


Shaw Terwilliger <sterwill@postman.sourcegear.com> writes:

> > Which makefile is its default value defined in?
> >
> > On the project webpage it's promissed that the default value of
> > $prefix is "/usr/local". It didn't work for me, and "make install"
> > installs the program into /AbiSuite!
>
> This sounds like the result of doing the "make install"
> from the abi/src/ directory instead of the abi/ directory.
> abi/Makefile defines $prefix at the top, before any
> targets use it. You should be able to use abi/src/Makefile
> for the install as long as you provide you own prefix value.
>
> Perhaps I should add the value to the src/Makefile... it
> should be overriden either way.

,-----http://www.abisource.com/dev_build.phtml#linux
| After you have all the stuff you need, to get things started, just cd
| into the abi/src directory, and type make.
|
| When the build has completed, you can type make install, as root, to
| install the AbiSuite distribution files and executables to
| /usr/local/AbiSuite.
`-----

How was I supposed to figure out that I should have built from abi/? ;^)

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