[H-GEN] What have I installed?

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Ewan Edwards <Edwards_Ewan_B at cat.com> writes:

> Yesterday, I downloaded the tarball for a recent version of a fairly commonly 
> used piece of software (dhcp-3.0.1rc11.tar.gz) to a RH7.3 box.  After having 
> a look at the README file and running the obligatory "./configure", "make", 
> and "make install" commands (without error I might add), I now want to know 
> what files I have actually 'installed' on this box.  Can someone please tell 
> me where I should look for some kind of list of what files (including man 
> pages) have been generated and installed?

Greg's answer is excellent and you should refer to it for the full
answer, but I will mention that you *may* get some progress by running

        $ make -n install

in the package's source directory.  This will list the commands the
makefile would have run to install the package, and the -n option will
also stop make from trying to verify these steps have already been
taken.

However!  This can list both more and less than the total sequence of
commands that would have been run, since extra commands could be
listed (because make no longer checks they're unnecessary) or fewer
(if the result of one of the commands would cause others to be run).

But it'll give you a starting point.

jason, and also remember that most GNU stuff will install into
       /usr/local/foo and /etc, but there are no guarantees at all
-- 
``I may have agreed to something involving a goat.''  -- CJ

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