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Re: Different install prefix for dpkg-buildpackage



On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 09:09:22AM +0530, Muralikrishnan B wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 03:12, David Z Maze wrote:
> > Muralikrishnan B <muralikrishnan_b@sifycorp.com> writes:
> >
> > > How can get I dpkg-buildpackage to install the source package i'm
> > > compiling in a different path (just like ./configure
> > > --prefix=/custom/path) ?
> >
> > You'd need to edit the debian/rules script to configure the package
> > appropriately.  But why do you want to?
> 
> I got the Evolution 1.3.1 snaphot source debs. Was trying to compile &
> install it in say /opt/... (rather than what it assumes to be the
> default path .. /usr/..)

If you're buliding a .deb, why bother?  dpkg will be able to safely
remove it from /usr, anyway.

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