Joerg Mayer jmayer@loplof.de writes:
So changing prefix is not the way to go. DESTDIR allows to do the install via "DESTDIR=/home/myaccount/rpms/tmp make install" instead of doing all the steps from "make install" manually.
But "make install prefix=/home/myaccount/rpms/tmp" should do exactly the same thing, unless I missed something. You can run make with one prefix and make install with another one, that's a feature.