[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54235] problems building Octave on Solaris

[Michele]

Follow-up Comment #147, bug #54235 (project octave):

You are referring to this section:


"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. 

"We highly recommend against dirname being the same or a subdirectory of
objdir or vice versa. If specifying a directory beneath a user’s home
directory tree, some shells will not expand dirname correctly if it contains
the ‘~’ metacharacter; use $HOME instead."


I did see that but I took it as not applying here since I did not specify any
--prefix flag to ./configure.  I thought they meant "don't dump the tar file
in /usr/local/ and build there".  I'm building in my home directory and they
claim the default installation directory is /usr/local.

Am I reading this wrong?  If so, how should I be invoking configure?  They
don't give any examples.  I simply called it with only --disable-Werror for
options.

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