[Samba] How to determine Samba Installation directory

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:40:06 -0400
Mark Foley via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> I'm building Samba from a scratch download from samba.org.  One of
> the ./configure options is --prefix, which directs where to install
> the files. 
> 
> The "default" is /usr/local/samba, but from experience I know my
> distro does not put the files there. There is nothing in either my
> /usr/lib/samba or /usr/local/samba.
> 
> How can I determine where my current --prefix directory is?
> 
> THX --Mark
> 

It is a bit more involved than that, if you just set the '--prefix'
option, then everything will end up in whatever directory you use.

You need to find out how Slackware builds Samba and build it in exactly
the same way.

Rowland