On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:28:31PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >I tend to just use --prefix=$HOME/inst$$. > > FWIW, I like that better, too. Or use some other path that only root > can write to, like /opt or /nonexistent.
I strongly recommend you use /nonexistent instead of $HOME. If $HOME is behind an NFS automounter, and your program searches for anything in its $prefix, then this can slow things to a crawl. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
