David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> ...and then Harry Putnam said...
> % 
> % I'm a little lost in installing spamassassin without using the
> % ./configure approach.  For example:  How does one instruct the 
> % `make install' to use /usr/local instead of /usr?
>
> Heh.  I remember beating my head to a bruise against this one :-)
>
> You're going to run the perl file Makefile.PL and so you need to pass it
> arguments.  Of course, arguments aren't in the form of --... but instead
> simply
>
>   perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr/local
>
> and away you go :-)  I forget what other options you can specify --
> though I know from !#^#^%%% experience that you can't specify any of the
> esoteric VENDORARCHLIB-type dirs -- but it's the same format and you just
> string 'em along the command line.

Thanks David, I have a hunch I would have been a while getting that
figured out.  Probably clearly documented somewhere. 


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