Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Montag, 16. Februar 2009 21:40:19 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
Grant wrote:
I thought running something like '.configure --prefix=/usr/local &&
make && make install' could still install files outside of /usr/local.
No?
That's true, it can. But *usually* it doesn't.
No, it can't. You have to tell it to so explicitely. Otherwise it wouldn't be
possible to install software as unprivileged user.
It's up the application to decide how to use prefix variable. Most
applications are respecting it. But you make it sound like it's
impossible to not respect it, which is not true. I can write automake
rules which completely ignore prefix.
