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…hat installation into prefix has to be done with DESTDIR make variable and that there's no prefix support in configure, close iputils#21
Karl-Philipp Richter authored and pavlix committed Aug 19, 2016
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make
make html
make man
lynx doc/iputils.html
Read...



If the first "make" fails, no problems:

make html
lynx doc/iputils.html
Read section "Installation notes"...



But if "make html" fails too, check that DocBook package is installed
on your machine. If it is installed, and nevertheless "make" does not work,
delete iputils and go to sleep. The next day repeat. If even full reset
did not help, I bring apologies. :-)


# Installation instructions
Run the following commands:

make
make html
make man
lynx doc/iputils.html
# Read...

## Troubleshooting
If the first `make` fails, no problems:

make html
lynx doc/iputils.html
Read section "Installation notes"...

But if `make html` fails too, check that DocBook package is installed
on your machine. If it is installed, and `make` does not work nevertheless,
please [open an issue on github.com]
(https://github.com/iputils/iputils/issues/new).

## Install into a prefix
There's no `configure` option to install into a prefix. Use the `DESTDIR`
`make` variable to change the installation target. There's no support for
picking up build dependencies in a prefix.

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