./configure command

[Michael Hennebry]

On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Paul Howarth wrote:

> 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.

Is there a reason that the install commands wouldn't show up in
the output or that they would be performed despite the -n flag?
The 'CP=cp -i' would obviously be useless.

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