No problem.  Thanks for updating the readme!

  - Braden


On Aug 15, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Guido Kanschat wrote:

> Braden,
> 
> sorry, it used to be stated prominently, but someone must have removed it. At 
> least I cannot find it myself
> 
> I just updated the readme file on the web page, which is also in the doc 
> subdirectory of the distribution.
> 
> So, in short: the --prefix option is of no use, since there is no "make 
> install"
> 
> Guido
> 
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Braden Pellett <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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> 
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