16 Jun
2008
16 Jun
'08
10:34 a.m.
I'm also wondering what prefix="pwd" does. I just use prefix=/home/user/.local, which works great for me, since I only keep the most recent version around - it should work for you, just switch to a different dir for each version.
taking a guess here, i think the syntax would be
prefix=`pwd` (with backticks)
that way it will run the shell command 'pwd' (which conveniently returns your current working directory) and use the result to set the prefix.
so in a nutshell, it's just telling configure to use the current dir as a prefix. But mind that pwd should be enclosed in backticks (so that we get the command output), not single or double quotes.
hope i didn't get anything wrong here. ricardo