[M3devel] How to install cm3 at a nonstandard location

[Mika Nystrom]

I think I pass the target directory to cminstall on the cmd. line, something like:

./cminstall /path/to/installation/root

"Rodney M. Bates" writes:
>I tried to build cm3 head and install at /usr/local/cm3-head.
> From the installation notes, I set environment variable
>CM3_INSTALL to this path.  After fixing several failures
>involving merges by cvs, I discovered it had been putting
>things into /usr/local/cm3, where I have the latest cm3
>release, giving me a mixture of stuff from the head and
>the release, which I certainly don't trust.
>
>I was building instead of using cminstall, like the the install
>notes were referring to.  However, before I started, I found
>code in scripts/sysinfo.sh setting up CM3_INSTALL to the default,
>unless already set, which I took to mean this was the way to
>do it when building too.
>
>I did double and triple check my spelling and value of
>CM3_INSTALL, before and after the failed builds.
>
>So how do I get this to work?
>
>This was on LINUXLIBC6.
>
>Rodney Bates
>