A.1 prefix

prefix corresponds to the variable ‘prefix’ for configure, which passes it on to the ‘Makefile’ it creates. prefix sets the root installation directory for host-independent files as follows:

the directory path of the default database

‘prefix/com’

site-wide configuration files

‘prefix/etc/gnats’

man pages

‘prefix/man’

info documents

‘prefix/info’

include files

‘prefix/include’

etc…

The default value for prefix is ‘/usr/local’, which can be changed on the command line to configure using

configure --prefix=prefix …

See section Configuring and compiling the software.

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