Compiling programs and KDE

Gain Paolo Mureddu gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx
Wed Feb 9 03:25:30 UTC 2005


Rob Rosenthal wrote:

> I take it you mean that when compiling a program for installation into
> an RH or Fedora system, it's a good idea (and safe) to consistently use
> --prefix=/usr as this will keep your system neat and well organized?

Taht is correct.

> (If your answer is, "Uh, yeah.  That's what I just said," please bear
> with me.  I sometimes need to mirror things back to make sure I get the
> idea!)
>
No problem

>> BTW, what are you trying to compile?
>>
> Actually nothing at the moment.  But seeing this issue in the book made
> me wonder if there was something important I was missing and I wanted to
> know what the deal was before I compiled anything else.
>
> Thank you, David!
>




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