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