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authorSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2006-08-01 16:30:01 +0000
committerSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2006-08-01 16:30:01 +0000
commite996df8fb59b8d8930a084bae432e45477d2530e (patch)
tree9554e97ad76ea83140377708b8f9011218c47477 /INSTALL
parentcca6ffe329668ddf4c6787f2b754857c4de57b09 (diff)
autofoo re-generated INSTALL
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@@ -102,16 +102,16 @@ for another architecture.
Installation Names
==================
-By default, `make install' will install the package's files in
-`/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc. You can specify an
-installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving `configure' the
-option `--prefix=PREFIX'.
+By default, `make install' installs the package's commands under
+`/usr/local/bin', include files under `/usr/local/include', etc. You
+can specify an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving
+`configure' the option `--prefix=PREFIX'.
You can specify separate installation prefixes for
architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files. If you
-give `configure' the option `--exec-prefix=PREFIX', the package will
-use PREFIX as the prefix for installing programs and libraries.
-Documentation and other data files will still use the regular prefix.
+pass the option `--exec-prefix=PREFIX' to `configure', the package uses
+PREFIX as the prefix for installing programs and libraries.
+Documentation and other data files still use the regular prefix.
In addition, if you use an unusual directory layout you can give
options like `--bindir=DIR' to specify different values for particular
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ where SYSTEM can have one of these forms:
need to know the machine type.
If you are _building_ compiler tools for cross-compiling, you should
-use the `--target=TYPE' option to select the type of system they will
+use the option `--target=TYPE' to select the type of system they will
produce code for.
If you want to _use_ a cross compiler, that generates code for a