telling `make install` to install in a specific directory?!?

black hole sun · 02-08-2005, 08:41 PM

hi. I am trying to build a glibc slackware tgz. I have already built the package, no problem. But I need to install it not in / but in /home/paul/work (my work dir)

I have tried:

make install DESTDIR=/home/paul/work
make install prefix=/home/paul/work
make install PREFIX=/home/paul/work
make install ROOT=/home/paul/work

Only `make install prefix=/home/paul/work` works a LITTLE - it puts two files in before it errors out because it tries to put a new linker in /lib (since I am not root it gets permission denied), I DONT want it to touch anything outside of the work dir!

Argh, help!

jtshaw · 02-08-2005, 08:47 PM

./configure --prefix=/home/paul/work

make && make install

black hole sun · 02-08-2005, 08:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by jtshaw
./configure --prefix=/home/paul/work

make && make install

I dont think I can do that. I am trying to build a slackware tgz (similar to rpm) and when the user uses it, it should not be put in some dir in the home file, it needs to be put in --prefix=/usr.

slakmagik · 02-08-2005, 09:18 PM

Almost straight from the SlackBuild:

Code:

../configure --prefix=/usr
make install install_root=wherever