Bug #8957 Updated: Please use --prefix to find things

ID: 8957 Updated by: mberbeira@hotmail.com Reported By: gaa@ulticom.com Status: Closed Bug Type: *Install and Config Operating System: Solaris 2.6 PHP Version: 4.0.4pl1 New Comment: why should i have to come down to a visible thing if i'm not already able to come down to town tomorrow morning? well, i guess cause of mu parents but i duno..... well, my last goodbyr to all the hackers around the world, i love ya!!! byee Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-01-27 21:48:29] sniper@php.net Many systems have different libraries installed in different locations. So using --prefix would not be a good solution. Just create a install script in which you can use some $PREFIX variable or something like that. --prefix is usually used to indicate the prefix of the path where 'make install' should copy libs/binaries/header files. --Jani ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-01-27 17:49:01] gaa@ulticom.com A suggestion: Please use --prefix when looking for things. I ran configure with many arguments like: --with-mm=/my/prefix/directory when the directory would not have been needed if either the --prefix was tried first, or if it used the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS and LIBS to find things. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=8957&edit=1