Configuration options

[Frank Schafer]

kabir.patel@uk.andersen.com wrote:

> I have a question regarding configuration options specified in
> http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html
>
> In the documentation it states:
>
> --prefix=dirname
> Specify the toplevel installation directory. This is the recommended way to
> install the tools into a directory other than the default. The toplevel
> installation directory defaults to /usr/local.
>
> For this would I specify
>
> prompt> ./configure prefix="/home/gnu"
>
> for example.
>
> It didn't seem to work, but came back with an error message like the following:
>
> "Invalid configuration `prefix=/home/gnu': machine `prefix=prefix=/home/gnu' not
> recognized"
>
> Could somebody tell me whats wrong?
>
> Thanks
> Kabir
>

Hi,

simply replace the:

    prompt> ./configure prefix="/home/gnu"

by:

    prompt> ./configure prefix=/home/gnu

Regards
Frank
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