program-prefix does not work

[Bryan Chua]

We are using it to prefix our installation with "ayr-" in a manner that 
can coexist transparently with previous ssh installations, so that is

/etc/ayr-ssh
/usr/lib/ayr-ssh
${HOME}/.ayr-ssh
ayr-ssh
ayr-sshd
...

-- bryan

Darren Moffat wrote:

>>>>>the configure option --program-prefix does not work although it is
>>>>>listed in teh configure --help output.
>>>>>
>>What is the purpose of this?
>>
> 
> It is quite often used to have things like the GNU version of tar installed
> as gtar rather than tar.  This is different to where the binaries get placed.
> 
> For OpenSSH I could see people using it to install the binaries with
> a prefix of open eg:
> 	openssh
> 	openscp
> 	opensftp
> 	opensshd
> 	
> --
> Darren J Moffat
> 
>