#15 Problems installing in non-default areas

[Anonymous]

I tried to install theackage in $HOME/local and had problems.

1. I changed the line
ac_default_prefix=/usr/local
to
ac_default_prefix=/home/raj/local

and did a ./configure

When I then tried doing make install it choked because
it tried to install the file "aliases" in /etc

/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 aliases /etc/sgml/aliases.new; \
echo "** Installed distributed aliases as /etc/sgml/aliases.new"; \
else \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 aliases /etc/sgml; \
fi;
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/etc/sgml': Permission denied
make: *** [install] Error 1

[Cees de Groot]

/etc/ is hardcoded, although I'm not sure whether that is still necessary. You may want to try to edit the definition of 'etcdir' in the makefile and see what happens.

(btw: you really should use ./configure --prefix instead of hacking configure's data files)

[Mark A. Flacy]

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Why not:

./configure --prefix=/home/raj/local
--with-etcsgml=/home/raj/local/etc/sgml