Unix Programming - Re: Compiling make in one place and supply a tar ball to install

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Re: Compiling make in one place and supply a tar ball to install

Irrational Number

2006-06-17, 1:25 am

bpatton wrote:

> I've ask this question before and can't find where I put the answer.
> I need to compile make 3.81. Create a tarball to give to the susadmins
> for installation.
> I know I can compile in one place and install in another. I don't tink
> I used --prefix but5 I don't really remember.

This does work for "make", where there are no
path dependencies within the executable. After
you have compiled "make", just give the sysadmins
the executable itself.

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