Re: How to install and find things in nonstandard locations?

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:05:06 +0900, Thomas Mueller 
<mueller6724%bellsouth.net@localhost> wrote:

> Question is how to install to such a directory prefix, and subsequently when I 
> need to subsequently link to these packages' libs and includes, how to make the 
> compiler and linker, and programs run therefrom, such as sed and grep, find 
> these libs and includes.

It is depend on softwares what you are trying to build.
Tell it to configure script or Makefile as arguments or environment variables,
or edit Makefile by hand, or so on.

For pkgsrc, you can select anywhere as installation prefix,
so the matter happens all the time and works well.

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