Re: installing mutt without root privilege

[Manoj Kasichainula]

On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 09:35:55AM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> $ ./configure --prefix=/final/location
> $ make
> $ make DESTDIR=/temporary/location install

The DESTDIR support isn't set up for the contrib directory yet, so the
stuff that gets installed out of there normally will fail.

> By the way, can anyone say if this use of DESTDIR is reasonably
> standard?

It's not universal, but it's pretty common.

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