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

[Anders Holmberg]

Hi!
Ah, sorry for that mate.
I think i was a bit unconcentrated yesterday.
Than i have to do a make uninstall and then start over.
Thanks for your great help.
/A

> 11 apr. 2018 kl. 16:31 skrev Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc>:
> 
> [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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