> On Aug 7, 2015, at 7:28 AM, Adam Rossi <ac.ro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi folks. I have tried a number of different ways to control the
> installation location of an auto tools-based project. From the command
> line I would run:
>
> ./bootstrap
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/myfolder
> make
> make install
>
> In my recipe I tried a number of ways to keep the binary out of
> /usr/bin, but none seem to work. Relevant parts of the recipe:
>
> inherit autotools
> EXTRA_OECONF = "--prefix=${D}/opt/myfolder”
you should look into the build scripts run.do_configure for this recipe
and see if its honoring your —prefix and ${D} in there is wrong since this
is the prefix you want it to appear in on target which usually is relative to /
>
> The above is ignored, auto tools puts the results in /usr/bin
>
> I also tried to override the do configure:
>
> do_configure() {
> oe_runconf --prefix=${D}/opt/myfolder
> }
>
> But I get complaints that the configure script is not found. I realize
> I am trying to swim upstream by controlling this location, but the
> heart wants what the heart wants. Any ideas?
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