You can't, as the documentation clearly states. If you want it in that
directory, copy the source directory there and then compile.

Best,
Guido

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Braden Pellett <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install deal.II to a system directory by using the --prefix
> option to the configure script.  Namely:
>
>  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/deal.ii/7.0.0
>
> (The use of 'Cellar' is because I'm on Mac OS X and am trying to use
> homebrew to manage the installation.  Though the below error occurs even if
> I run configure directly with a prefix set.)
>
> The configure script seems to work okay, but when I go to 'make all', I
> get:
>
>  make[1]: *** No rule to make target
> `/usr/local/Cellar/deal.ii/7.0.0/common/Make.global_options', needed by
> `make_dependencies'.  Stop.
>
> In other words, the generated Makefile seems to be trying to use the
> installation prefix to find files that are actually located in the source
> hierarchy.  I guess by default this doesn't break because the default prefix
> is set to the current working directory.
>
> I get the same error if I try to set a prefix under Linux.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>  Braden
>
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