I want to control where Qt 4.8.5 is installed on my development box (Centos 6.2), but it appears that the -prefix switch for ./configure is being ignored. When ./configure is finished it advertises that Qt will be installed into my desired directory, but when I actually execute “gmake install” Qt gets installed to the default “/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.8.5”. I’ve never had this trouble customizing any other app with the ./configure process, just this one time with Qt. (Note: I installed the previous version of Qt [6.4.2] on my box using “yum”, so ./configure wasn’t necessary).
The syntax for prefixing the install path (./configure —help) is:
./configure -prefix /opt/qt4.8.5
but I tried other variations just to test it out. It turns out the old style
./configure —prefix=/opt/qt4.8.5
is still accepted as correct syntax too. In either case ./configure finishes with
Qt will be installed into /opt/qt4.8.5
but all the Makefiles, qdoc files, and html files still have “/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.8.5” in them. And if I execute “make install”, that’s just where they go.
Usually when something “should just work” and it doesn’t, the problem is either me or it’s a bug (usually it’s me). All the Qt install documentation (official and unofficial) claims the prefix switch “should just work”, so I’m hoping it’s not me this time.
Has anyone else tackled this problem?
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