Received: from konishi-polis.mit.edu (STRATTON-ONE-FORTY-SIX.MIT.EDU [18.187.5.146]) by krbdev.mit.edu (8.9.3p2) with ESMTP id RAA28975; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 17:25:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by konishi-polis.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 8042) id 75FC515159C; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 17:25:12 -0400 (EDT) To: rt-comment@krbdev.mit.edu Cc: krb5-prs@mit.edu Subject: Re: [krbdev.mit.edu #2519] 1.3.2 Build problems. References: From: Sam Hartman Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 17:25:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: (rt-comment@krbdev.mit.edu's message of "Sun, 4 Apr 2004 17:10:35 -0400 (EDT)") Message-Id: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii RT-Send-Cc: X-RT-Original-Encoding: us-ascii Content-Length: 1073 >>>>> "omalleys@msu" == omalleys@msu edu via RT writes: omalleys@msu> It still didn't build. Shouldn't it still compile omalleys@msu> even if I used that flag? omalleys@msu> I used the wrong flag for what I was -intending-, omalleys@msu> but the fact remains it didn't build with that omalleys@msu> particular flag or do the build scripts have some omalleys@msu> sort of mind-reading capabilities? If so, why omalleys@msu> wouldn't they want to tell me i am a moron in the omalleys@msu> configure script before I tried to build it? like omalleys@msu> "configure failed! You are being a moron and either omalleys@msu> you want to use --flag with the --program-prefix omalleys@msu> flag or you really want the --prefix instead. RTFM!" I think you misunderstand what that flag does. The program-prefix is added in front of every program name. If it contains slash, things won't work very well. The flag you may have been looking for is bindir, which specifies where the programs get installed to.