On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 17:51 -0500, robrosenthal1 wrote:
> I bought a book called Linux Timesaving Techniques for Dummies (yes, I
> know, I'm a dummy. And a newbie. And clueless. Yada yada yada). In
> giving an example of how to compile programs, the authors used
> superkaramba as a working example. At the ./configure stage, they say
> to enter the following command
> $ ./configure --prefix=$(kde-config-prefix)
Almost every package is compiled with --prefix=/usr (including KDE) when
installing to RH or Fedora.
>
This keeps almost everything in the expected locations; Program
directories under /usr/share, executables in /usr/bin, configuration
files in /etc, etc.
Not doing so tends to put stuff in /usr/local/whatever. They'll
(usually) still work but using --prefix provides a neater system.
BTW, what are you trying to compile?
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