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Configuring target directories
Note: make sure that you are in the build/ subdirectory of your source tree.
If you intend to use your local build to install a local copy of
the program, you probably want to configure the installation
directory. Here are the relevant lines taken from the output of
../configure --help:
By default,
make installwill install all the files in /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib etc. You can specify an installation prefix other than /usr/local using --prefix, for instance --prefix=$HOME.
A typical installation prefix is $HOME/usr.
../configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
Note that if you plan to install a local build on a system where
you do not have root privileges, you need to do something like
this anyway – make install only succeeds if the
installation prefix points to a directory where you have write
permission (such as your home directory). The installation
directory is automatically created if necessary.
The location of the lilypond command installed by this
process is prefix/bin/lilypond; you may want to
add prefix/bin/ to your $PATH if it is not
already included.
It is also possible to specify separate installation directories
for different types of program files. See the full output of
../configure --help for more information.
See section Problems, if you encounter any problems.
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