building from sources with a PREFIX

[Harry Putnam]

When building sendmail from sources how can I tell the build process
to build in a directory of my chosing... and to install there too.

Something along the line of the gnu ./configure option
--prefix=/my/dir

[Which would cause the software to be built in /my/dir. Calling `make
install' (in top level of gnu sftware sources) would then cause the
build process to create whatever directories it needs starting at
/my/dir/]

Is there a similar option to `cd [...]/sendmail-X.XX/sendmail/'
sh ./Build

[Claus Aßmann]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> When building sendmail from sources how can I tell the build process
> to build in a directory of my chosing... and to install there too.

See devtools/README for the various options.
It seems the "install" part is covered, for the "build here" it
might be a bit complicated (and I don't see a real need for it).

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