Hi,
I have some remarks and questions about ./configure --help
*) ./configure --help says:
By default, `make install' will install all the files in
`/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/lib' etc. You can specify
an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' using `--prefix',
for instance `--prefix=$HOME'.
This is not true :). Cyrus installs here by default :
prefix = /usr/local
exec_prefix = ${prefix}
cyrus_prefix = /usr/cyrus
Some files get installed in /usr/cyrus/bin too.
*) --with-cyrus-prefix --prefix --with-service-path
Now that are a lot of options and there explanation isn't that clear:
--with-cyrus-prefix=DIR use DIR as cyrus server install directory
--with-service-path=DIR use DIR as service install directory
--prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX
[/usr/local]
--exec-prefix=EPREFIX install architecture-dependent files in EPREFIX
[PREFIX]
Changing --prefix doesn't change --with-cyrus-prefix . I think it
should be that if I change --prefix everything gets installed under
--prefix. I do not know why cyrus has the --with-cyrus-prefix option.
So I can't say if it reasonable or not (Or that I'm unreasonable :).
To summerize, you have to run configure with --prefix and
--with-cyrus-prefix if you want to make sure cyrus installs all files
under a different directory. In my case I (want to) install my cyrus
under /usr/cyrus-version. And I then link /usr/cyrus to
/usr/cyrus-version. I then add /usr/cyrus/man then to my man path. So
no mather what cyrus version is running I always get the right man pages.
Maybe the help message should be made more clearer?
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Rudy Gevaert Rudy.Gevaert@xxxxxxxx tel:+32 9 264 4734
Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur Direction ICT, Infrastructure dept.
Groep Systemen Systems group
Universiteit Gent Ghent University
Krijgslaan 281, gebouw S9, 9000 Gent, Belgie www.UGent.be
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