SUMMARY:log of file placement from "make install"

From: McCaffity, Ray <ray.mccaffity_at_wcg.com>
Date: Thu Aug 16 2001 - 18:08:42 EDT
I don't hink I've ever gotten so many different answers to the same question
before. :-)

A few people mentioned using the --prefix option during the compile.
./configure --prefix=/opt/local
This works great for programs like apache that put everything one directory,
Not so good for programs like bind, that put some files in the prefix
directory
but many other files, in many other directories.

A few people mentioned looking /var/sadm/install/contents
But as I suspected, this only has the files installed by pkgadd, not files
installed by make install.

A few people mentioned not running the make; make install as root so it
didn't
mess up my file system,  True, but the application doesn't work either
because
all the files aren't where they need to be.

One good suggestion was from a user named "artifact"
# make install > install.log 2>&1
This was pretty good, it didn't have everything, but at least it told me
which scripts were run so I could go in and look at them.

Another good suggestion from Will Froning
make -n install
generates similar output from the above command, but is a little more
difficult to read.

Thanks again to too many people to mention for good suggestions.

Ray
Received on Thu Aug 16 23:08:42 2001

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