Re: IGNORED

[Joop Stakenborg <pa3aba@debian.org>]

On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 16:03, w9ya wrote:
> Hi gang;
> 
> It seems that a 'prefix=blah' during install is being igmored by the docs and 
> examples IF that prefix is different than the --prefix= used during 
> configure. The binaries are properly placed however. Any ideas where and what 
> to change?
> 

Are you talking about building a debian package? Then you could use
DESTDIR.debian/rules contains a line like:

$(MAKE) install DESTDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp

In your modified makefile, use:

install -s 'program' $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin

> Bob Finch
> w9ya
> 

Joop