./configure command

[Paul Howarth]

Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:22 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>> One does not have to become root.
>>> If one does want the software
>>> installed as system software,
>>> do some testing first.
>>> Edit Makefile,
>>> removing any .SILENT targets.
>>> As an ordinary user,
>>> make -n prefix=/opt 'CP=cp -i' install 2>&1 | tee makeno.out
>> Same as above. This won't work in most cases.
> 
> In this case, I'm not sure what "won't work" means.
> Do you mean that it won't give one a good idea whether
> something one doesn't want clobbered will get clobbered?

Possibly. A large proportion of projects use "install" rather than "cp" 
in their Makefile "install" targets.

Paul.