bash: Installation Names

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1 10.4 Installation Names
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1 By default, 'make install' will install into '/usr/local/bin',
1 '/usr/local/man', etc.  You can specify an installation prefix other
1 than '/usr/local' by giving 'configure' the option '--prefix=PATH', or
1 by specifying a value for the 'DESTDIR' 'make' variable when running
1 'make install'.
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1    You can specify separate installation prefixes for
1 architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files.  If you
1 give 'configure' the option '--exec-prefix=PATH', 'make install' will
1 use PATH as the prefix for installing programs and libraries.
1 Documentation and other data files will still use the regular prefix.
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