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.
I take it you mean that when compiling a program for installation into an RH or Fedora system, it's a good idea (and safe) to consistently use --prefix=/usr as this will keep your system neat and well organized? (If your answer is, "Uh, yeah. That's what I just said," please bear with me. I sometimes need to mirror things back to make sure I get the idea!)
BTW, what are you trying to compile?
Actually nothing at the moment. But seeing this issue in the book made me wonder if there was something important I was missing and I wanted to know what the deal was before I compiled anything else.
Thank you, David!
