Re: configure prefix ignored by make install

Subject: Re: configure prefix ignored by make install

Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 07:30:40 -0800

To: Sandra Snan, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


Sandra Snan <sandra.snan@idiomdrottning.org> writes:

> I just ran
>
>     ./configure --prefix=/tmp/notmuch
>     make
>     sudo make install
>
> It clobbered /usr/local instead of installing to the prefix.

I can't duplicate that on Debian testing with GNU Make. FWIW, it should
not be required to use sudo to install into /tmp (but as far as I know
it should work).
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