On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:03:17 +0100 (CET) Daniel Hernandez <danielhdez2718@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > ./configure --prefix=myprefix > > etc. The interesting thing is that even with this last > option fontconfig still tries to write things in > /etc/fonts although configure is supposed to write > things in /myprefix/etc. Is there a way to surpass > this or I must necessarily install fontconfig as > root?. There's another option, --sysconfdir, which decides where /etc files go. --prefix has no business with those. -- Ciprian Popovici