What does the PHP configuration option "--prefix=PREFIX" do?
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I have heard that setting the --prefix=PREFIX
option when compiling PHP on linux will allow you to have more than one install of PHP at a time without them clashing. (I think the default if this isn't set is /usr/local
). However, I'm not sure what exactly it does or what a good setting to use is. Furthermore, I've also heard that setting it to something other than the default value might make some PHP extensions harder to install.
./configure --prefix=PREFIX ...
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