From af29024d73f332ce31b17bbf68f4e88bd1eac84b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@elastic.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 17:26:35 -0500
Subject: PR6925: encourage people to configure with a --prefix

---
 configure.ac | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'configure.ac')

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 108a519c..8670d9fe 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -249,3 +249,11 @@ if test $build_elfutils = yes; then
   )
 fi
 
+if test "${prefix}" = "/usr/local"; then
+   AC_MSG_NOTICE([])
+   AC_MSG_NOTICE([For a private or temporary build of systemtap, we recommend])
+   AC_MSG_NOTICE([configuring with a prefix.  For example, try])
+   AC_MSG_NOTICE([$0 $ac_configure_args --prefix=$HOME/systemtap-${PACKAGE_VERSION}-$$])
+   AC_MSG_NOTICE([Running systemtap uninstalled, entirely out of the build tree,])
+   AC_MSG_NOTICE([is not supported.])
+fi
-- 
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