From: Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong@...>
Date: 2006-05-16T13:13:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Solaris Install: Non-standard location

Many, many thanks for the help, folks.
I'm beginning to find my way around.
Now then...

Daniel Berger wrote:
> Eric Armstrong needed:
> 
> make distclean
> ./configure --prefix=/wherever/you/want
> make
> make install
> 
> Add /wherever/you/want to your $PATH.
> 
Aha. I need to specify --prefix in the configure
step. Didn't see that bit of information anywhere.

The default make target in the next step is "all",
which really means "build without installing".

But I'm not sure how to read the install target.
I see this in the makefile:

install: install-nodoc $(RDOCTARGET)
install-all: install-nodoc install-doc

Install-all sounds like the one I want to get the
documentation. But install seems to be doing
something similar.

But when I took a deeper look I found that RDOCTARGET
defaults to null, and it's not used anywhere else in the
makefile. So it looks like:

  * RDOCSTARGET and the reference to it should be
    removed from the Makefile

  * install-all is the target I want

Is that about right?