Re: prefix

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Ivan Novick wrote:
> When using --prefix in the configure script will this force
> a new location of the intallation of include files?

I did that as well once and it seemed to work, although I never
thoroughly tested that installation, since I almost never
use it.

> I want to make sure that 100% of the intsallation will be in
> my home directory and not in /usr as not to conflict 
> with a working installation already in place.

Make sure you don't run 'make install' as root, but as the user
that owns the target directory and that doesn't have write
permission for /usr.

jlh

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