Questions about "make install"

Mike Meyer mwm at mired.org
Wed Aug 11 16:58:02 UTC 2010


On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:50:28 +0200
Paul Boddie <paul.boddie at biotek.uio.no> wrote:

> Mike Meyer wrote:
> > 2) Why specify --prefix for install? most of the time users are
> >    installing as root, leaving it off will do the right thing, whereas
> >    specifying it requires the user to do so on every system where
> >    python isn't in the default place (I believe that's "most of them"
> >    since the popular Linux distros put python in /usr/local).
> 
> Debian, Ubuntu and Red Hat don't put python in /usr/local. Or do you 
> mean that users of those distributions frequently choose to install 
> their own versions manually into /usr/local?

No, I said it backwards. I meant to say "... *don't* put python in
/usr/local).", which is where a bare "make install" in the current hg
distro will put things.

       <mike
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