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2.2.9 Renaming Programs at Install Time
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The GNU Build System provides means to automatically rename executables
and manpages before they are installed (Note: Man Pages).  This is
especially convenient when installing a GNU package on a system that
already has a proprietary implementation you do not want to overwrite.
For instance, you may want to install GNU ‘tar’ as ‘gtar’ so you can
distinguish it from your vendor’s ‘tar’.

   This can be done using one of these three ‘configure’ options.

‘--program-prefix=PREFIX’
     Prepend PREFIX to installed program names.
‘--program-suffix=SUFFIX’
     Append SUFFIX to installed program names.
‘--program-transform-name=PROGRAM’
     Run ‘sed PROGRAM’ on installed program names.

   The following commands would install ‘hello’ as
‘/usr/local/bin/test-hello’, for instance.

     ~/amhello-1.0 % ./configure --program-prefix test-
     ...
     ~/amhello-1.0 % make
     ...
     ~/amhello-1.0 % sudo make install
     ...