Re: Newbie: Installing some binaries and other files in /usr/X11R6 by default

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi,

* address@hidden wrote on Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 09:28:37AM CET:
> I started reading about GNU Autotools yesterday morning.
> Still, I've been able to convert my project to use
> autconf and automake.
> But I need to install my binaries in the directory
> tree of the X server, and I couldn't find out how to
> do it. Is it possible?

   ./configure --prefix=/usr/X11R6

and maybe also add --sysconfdir and other directory options to match
your desired installation.
   ./configure --help

has more information, the `INSTALL' file even more.

I would warn against overwriting system files though, unless you really
know what you're doing.  Modern unices have packaging systems. :-)

Cheers,
Ralf