[ale] How to not use ~/.local/bin as an install location?

[Chris Fowler]

The full prefix to ~/bin is /home/user/bin.  Test using configure this way:

./configure --prefix=${HOME}/bin \
  --sysconfdir=${HOME}/bin \
  --sbindir=${HOME}/bin \
....

You'll need to play away with it.

I use GNU Stow for ~/bin and other things.  You can do a destdir install after make
and I'll user perl-5.24.0 as an example here

mkdir target $(pwd)/perl-5.24.0-b
make DESTDIR=$(pwd)/perl-5.24.0-b install

You'll end up with perl-24.0-b/${HOME}/bin/perl ....
Use ${HOME} as Stow's target instead.
Great pkg store
mkdir ${HOME}/pkg
mv $(pwd)/targer/perl-5.24.0-b/${HOME} ${HOME}/pkg/perl-5.24.0
Now, the home dir is stripped out of the path.  Install the package
stow -t ${HOME} -d ${HOME}/pkg -S perl-5.24.0 -v -n &&
 stow -t ${HOME} -d ${HOME}/pkg -S perl-5.24.0 -v

The fist does a simulation and if it is successful the 2nd command executes.
Most packages have DESTDIR defined in their Makefile for a DESTDIR install.  Check
that file before running the command.

Using this method allows you to upgrade packages at any time and copy them to other systems.
Use '-D' to destow.  When you destow, all links created from the package in ${HOME} are gone and all that is left is the pkg in the pkg directory.



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Subject: [ale] How to not use ~/.local/bin as an install location?

For those of us with lots of stuff in ~/bin, how do we tell install
programs not to install in ~/.local/bin?


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