[BRLTTY] Question about --prefix

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Mon Sep 3 19:55:56 EDT 2007


[quoted lines by Christopher Gray on 2007/09/03 at 16:49 -0700]

>In the Orca documentation about using brltty, this statement is made regarding 
>the build for brltty under Ubuntu.
>
>"Then, when you build BrlTTY, avoid configuring the package with --prefix=/usr. 
>Use the standard procedure instead, executing the following commands as 
>{{{root}}}:

I suspect this warning is given simply because it's customary to configure with 
--prefix=/usr, therefore people might tend to specify it out of habit.

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