Re: installing gtk1.2 and glib1.2.10, what is "install-prefix"

[Maciej Katafiasz <mnews22 wp pl>]

Dnia 31-07-2004, sob o godzinie 16:39 -0400, philip dahlquist napisał:
> ok, i'm installing the aforementioned libraries using the following
> instructions:
>
> Simple install procedure
> ========================
>
>   % gzip -cd gtk+-1.2.10.tar.gz | tar xvf - # unpack the sources
>   % cd gtk+-1.2.10                       # change to the toplevel directory
>   % ./configure                                  # run the `configure' script
>   % make                                 # build GTK
>
>   [ Become root if necessary ]
>   % rm -rf /install-prefix/include/gtk /install-prefix/include/gdk
>   % make install                         # install GTK
>
>
> what is the "install-prefix" directory.  there are quite a few
> candidates for this label. is it the source directory gtk+-1.2.10, or
> /usr/include/gtk1.2, or /usr/local, or what?

if you ran ./configure without --prefix, then install prefix is
usually /usr/local. To be exact, it's the dir that will be prefixed to
all paths when installing, so it's $prefix/lib/gtk, $prefix/include/gtk
etc.

HTH,
Maciej

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