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authorRoger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>2008-10-26 16:13:15 +0000
committerRoger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>2008-10-26 16:13:15 +0000
commit162bb22c0a612c065ea77a88136fcf8ded9159a9 (patch)
tree5dd9b87d64c613ad2fc3998e80aa9fbf1400f537 /INSTALL
parente74aac350fb79d8cc3ed6a97451b30443ad9dac9 (diff)
Imported Upstream version 4.3.99+cvs20051122.dfsg.1
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@@ -102,16 +102,16 @@ for another architecture.
Installation Names
==================
-By default, `make install' will install the package's files in
-`/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc. You can specify an
-installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving `configure' the
-option `--prefix=PREFIX'.
+By default, `make install' installs the package's commands under
+`/usr/local/bin', include files under `/usr/local/include', etc. You
+can specify an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving
+`configure' the option `--prefix=PREFIX'.
You can specify separate installation prefixes for
architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files. If you
-give `configure' the option `--exec-prefix=PREFIX', the package will
-use PREFIX as the prefix for installing programs and libraries.
-Documentation and other data files will still use the regular prefix.
+pass the option `--exec-prefix=PREFIX' to `configure', the package uses
+PREFIX as the prefix for installing programs and libraries.
+Documentation and other data files still use the regular prefix.
In addition, if you use an unusual directory layout you can give
options like `--bindir=DIR' to specify different values for particular
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ where SYSTEM can have one of these forms:
need to know the machine type.
If you are _building_ compiler tools for cross-compiling, you should
-use the `--target=TYPE' option to select the type of system they will
+use the option `--target=TYPE' to select the type of system they will
produce code for.
If you want to _use_ a cross compiler, that generates code for a