[mythtv-users] What does make install actually do

[David Watkins]

I've compiled a few frontends from source, but my backend (18.1) was
built using rpms.

I'd now like to compile mythtv for the backend.  I'm reasonably
comfortable with doing the build, and I've read the upgradetoCVShowto
(although I'll be using the 18.1 tarball), but I'm still a bit unclear
on the best way to install the files, without breaking anything that
I've already got.

I've noticed that make install puts the binaries into /usr/local/,
whereas the rpm binaries are currently in /usr/local/bin, so am I
correct in thinking that nothing would get overwritten and I manually
move files or adjust the order of the path to enable the compiled
versions?

What about other files ( libs, configs, scripts?, stuff in
~mythtv/.mythtv/ etc).  Does any of that get overwritten.

Lots of people must have done this - what are the gotchas?

Thanks in Advance.

David