I'm sorry, for some reason I seem to be having a hard time finding reference to 
this in the documentation.  Could you possibly point me to the relevant page?

Sorry for the trouble.

(Though, I did finally find reference to wanting to support 'make install' and 
'./configure --prefix' in the requested feature list on the wiki. 
http://dealii.sourceforge.net/index.php/Requested_Features )

  - Braden

On Aug 15, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Guido Kanschat wrote:

> 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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