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On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:47:58AM -0400, Chet Hosey wrote: > I'll often go so far as to ./configure --prefix=/tmp/meat/usr > (yes, I usually use "meat" as a throwaway directory name), and after > "make install" I'll cd into /tmp/meat, make whatever modifications are > appropriate (such as adding an init.d script), "tar czf ../progname.tar.gz > *", and convert it to package appropriate for the local system. The problem with this approach is that various components are not necessarily relocatable in this fashion. Compile-time hard-coded prefix-derived paths come to mind. *Anton.There's stuff above here
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