Re: fixing directory structure for 1.8.1 release on SuSE 10.0

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Joseph Schiller <address@hidden> writes:

> The previous release had
> placed files in /usr/bin directory and the new is
> placing them in /usr/local/share/guile.

[...]

> After building Guile from sources, running guile
> --version was showing guile 1.6.7 still. Running make
> uninstall, and running ./configure --prefix=/usr/bin
> did nothing to correct the issue.

Guile use the standard tools of the GNU Build System.  Therefore,
running `./configure' alone will lead to things being installed under
`/usr/local' (i.e., executables in `/usr/local/bin', libs in
`/usr/local/lib', etc.).

OTOH, `./configure --prefix=/usr/bin' will finally install things under
`/usr/bin'---that is, executables in `/usr/bin/bin', libs in
`/usr/bin/lib', etc.  This is certainly not what you want.

Instead, if you want things installed under `/usr/bin', what you want is
`./configure --prefix=/usr'.  It should work fine.

(Note: you may need to run `make clean' before running `configure' with
a different `--prefix'.)

Hope this helps,
Ludovic.