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Compiling and installing programs as non-root in home-dir?

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I'm trying to compile programs under Solaris in my Home directory. Ive had experience with simple installs which work with just But with more involved programs, with dependencies on special libraries, how do I have the system look into my home directory for these? and how would I compile them into ā€¦

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$> CD src
   $> ./configure --prefix=/home/peter
   $> make
   $> make install

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I have to do things like that when I cross compile applications. If ./configure supports it, you can check with --help, you can do something like the following There's one entry for libraries, and one for includes, however, there is always the old sā€¦

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