<div dir="ltr">I need that prefix since I'm cross-compiling. With the prefix I specify where my toolchain is located and where the library and binarys are supposed to be installed. In my opinion the compiler prefix is only the path where the packages get installed or copied to. But it doesn't affect the packages-specific settings like in this case for d-bus its socket-path or config-path. Prefix is, in my opinion, only an option for autoconf, gcc etc. but not for the package (dbus) itself isn't it? So all I want is the following (tried today with I guess all options ./configure --help provided, and I know you can provide some paths in dbus config file system.conf): 1) Compile and install d-bus on host system (i386): Toolchain is at: "/opt/devel/arm9/arm-linux/"  So I specify: --prefix="/opt/devel/arm9/arm-linux/", without this prefix my local d-bus system get's overridden. 2) I have to copy the created lib and binaries (I do only need the lib, dbus-daemon and dbus-monitor)  to my target (ARM Arch). I wanna located the lib at /lib and the binarys in /usr/local/bin And all paths for any files of course should not perpended with prefix but in usual style like: /etc/dbus/system.conf or /tmp/.socket and /var/run/dbus-pid Sorry If I didn't express this fact in my mail before clearly. Thanks for any help. Fritz. <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Thiago Macieira <<a href="mailto:thiago@kde.org" target="_blank">thiago@kde.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>On Sexta 22 Agosto 2008 14:36:00 Fritz Code wrote: > So somehow I can't get the prefix (which i have specified (--prefix= > /opt/devel/toolchains/arm9/arm-linux) out of dbus. </div>If you don't want that prefix, why did you specify it? --   Thiago Macieira  -  thiago (AT) <a href="http://macieira.info" target="_blank">macieira.info</a> - thiago (AT) <a href="http://kde.org" target="_blank">kde.org</a>     PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint:     E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C  966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358 _______________________________________________ dbus mailing list <a href="mailto:dbus@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">dbus@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dbus" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dbus</a> </blockquote></div> -- Regards, --Codefritz </div>