% BOND(1) % Afif Elghraoui afif@ghraoui.name % May 2016

NAME

bond - change name space

SYNOPSIS

bond prefix

DESCRIPTION

bond activates a directory for use as an installation prefix. It works by setting an array of standard environment variables so that installations to the given prefix can be directly used by standard tools with no further action.

BUGS

Please see https://gitlab.com/afif/bond/issues for known issues or to report new ones.

EXAMPLE

Prepare a directory to use as an installation prefix.

mkdir local
basedir="$PWD/local"

Bond it.

bond "$basedir"

Install programs to this folder. For any program you want to install, set the prefix to the bonded folder.

Perl module:

perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE="$basedir"
make
make install

Autoconfiscated package:

./configure --prefix="$basedir"
make
make install

These packages should now be available for use within the current and any child shell as if they were centrally installed.

SEE ALSO

http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/bind

http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/4/namespace

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