Re: ./configure installs to /usr/local/

From: Jean Bréfort <jean.brefort_at_normalesup.org>
Date: Thu Aug 06 2009 - 21:59:15 CEST

Le jeudi 06 août 2009 à 19:50 +0000, linuxcbon a écrit :
> Hi,
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> when I compile abiword with ./configure, it installs it to /usr/local/
> Isn't it better to install to /usr/ per default instead ?

Certainly not. If you really want to install something to /usr,
use ./configure --prefix=/usr, but this is not recommnded since you
might overwrite some files from yoyr distribution.

Regards,
Jean

> Cheers.
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> ps : with version 2.7.8, when I click help->about abiword, it doesnt show the version number.
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Received on Thu Aug 6 21:59:38 2009

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