Re: Help with installing Emacs 23(CVS) to a custom path

[Suvayu Ali]

On Wednesday 20 January 2010 07:55 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:35:57 -0800
> > From: Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
> >
> > $ ./configure
> > $ make bootstrap
> >
> > Then I edited the Makefile to use ${prefix}=/scratchdisk/myfolder and ran
> >
> > $ make install
> >
> > But this fails as make tries to install _some_ files in /usr/local/share/
> >
> > How do I ask make to install everything in /scratchdisk/myfolder ?
>
>   $ make distclean
>   $ ./configure prefix=/scratchdisk/myfolder
>   $ make
>   $ make install
>
> > Also can I remove my build directory after `make install' succeeds?
> > (short on disk space)
>
> Yes.

Thank you Eli and Lennart. Alls well now. :)

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