[Gllug] BIND

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On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Grzegorz Jaskiewicz uttered the following:
> On Tuesday 08 of July 2003 13:40, Tethys wrote:
>> Grzegorz Jaskiewicz writes:
>> >> I noted that the standard 'make' places the binaries in /usr/local/sbin
>> >> - so I have copied them over to /usr/sbin where I believe the init
>> >> script will want them to be (since that's where the old named was).
>> >
>> >use ./configure --prefix=/usr to change that default behavior.
>>
>> As I've argued elsewhere, it's not really desirable to do this. Don't
>> mix self compiled stuff with things your distribution supplies. Instead,
>> put it somewhere completely separate (I usr /local for this, for example).
>> You certainly shouldn't be touching /usr.

However, if you must, then configure --prefix is better than
mv-after-install, and make install prefix= and stow/depot/STORE is
better than that.

> make uninstall :]

Not even halfway to being vaguely reliable. And this sort of thing must
be reliable lest your system fill up with cruft.

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