Re: [Pan-users] Trying to build pan 0.13.3 from source on RH 7.3

[Brian Morrison]

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On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 19:52:16 -0600 in address@hidden Jeff
Vian <address@hidden> wrote:

> This is referenced in the configure script as 
> "ac_default_prefix=/usr/local" in many packages.
> 
> To override the default you can  run configure with "--prefix=/usr"
> (or any other directory name of your choice) and it will set up the
> Makefile to install into the listed directory
> 
> THIS IS NOT A BUG.
> Instead it is a standard install tool option.

I'm aware of this, but the usual convention is to install locally built
packages to /usr/local, so when Pan can't find it I had to find a fix.
Many other configure scripts allow a --with-gtkspell-prefix=<path>
argument to be passed from the command line.

- -- 

Brian Morrison

bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk
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