[Samba] How to determine Samba Installation directory

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM 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?

If you have a config.site, then the default installation directories
are taken from it. However, once ./configure is run, you often have a
*.pc file that provides the directories.

Also see bug reports like <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1510073>.

Jeff