On Saturday 18 February 2006 10:16, Rafael Fernández López wrote: > > This is what --prefix is for. > > ./configure --prefix=~/ > > make && make install > > This puts it into /home/user/ where /home/user is considered to be /
> What I meant is that it could be selected as default option. My idea is > to > make easier new users to install apps that don't have, and that would like > to, without having to read man configure. This is the pneumonic load of *nix. Installing software is non-trivial. We make it much easier in gentoo with emerge, just as autoconf/automake made it much simpiler in the past. If a user is going to compile and install software in their home directory they are going to have to at least learn --prefix as an option to configure. Fortunately/unfortunately this is a requirement. Just as learning to use ls to list files in a directory. -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
