[mythtv-users] What does make install actually do

David Watkins watkinshome at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 08:16:08 EDT 2005


On 27/10/05, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>
> I think there's a file called settings.pro (from memory) which lets
> you override the target dir for install so you could use that to get
> make install to install to the current location. I don't know what the
> consequences of having simultaneous RPM and CVS installs, but it
> sounds like the sort of thing that could turn ugly.

It does doesn't it.

I don't really want to keep the rpm setup, just move between the two
in a controlled way.  I guess what you're saying is I should uninstall
the rpms first?


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