Mayuresh,
On Sat, 8 Feb 2014, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> hello, would anyone with custom software building for omnios
> be able to suggest the usual value for "--prefix" variable
> to "./configure"?
That would depend on whether you intend to build installable packages or
are just doing the equivalent of "configure ; make ; make install".
If you are not packaging up the code and are just doing a "make install",
the convention is to use /usr/local as the prefix.
If you intend to build a package installable with
"pkg install some_package_name", there are more things to consider.
If you intend to publish them for others to use, you will probably want
to choose some new directory in /opt. Perhaps /opt/mk.
If they are only used for systems you control, you may want to consider
something like
PACKAGE=lynx
./configure \
--prefix=/opt \
--sysconfdir=/etc/opt/${PACKAGE} \
--localstatedir=/var/opt/${PACKAGE} \
--mandir=/opt/man \
--docdir=/opt/share/doc/packages/${PACKAGE} \
--htmldir=/opt/share/doc/packages/${PACKAGE}/html \
> to test things out, i have installed everything within my
> home directory, which has created a bunch of directories which
> kind-a looks messy. :)
>
> i have been building and playing with lynx, mutt and ircii.
>
> thanks,
>
> ~mayuresh
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