[BRLTTY] Problems using ./configure --prefix to make brlty go to another folder.

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Anders Holmberg on 2018/04/11 at 16:11 +0200]

>when i was trying to install brltty 5.6 using ./configure —prefix=/sbin 
>something went wrong and after make install there were only brltty 4.5 that 
>started.

You're using an odd character before prefix=. Just in case that's one of your 
problems, it should be two minus signs, i.e.: --prefix=

I think, though, that your main problem is misunderstanding how --prefix= 
works. It specifies the top level of the whole hierarchy. I bet you now have a 
complete brltty-5.6 hierarchy under /sbin/.

If you just want to specify that executables should go into /sbin/ then you 
should be specifying: --bindir=/sbin

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