I was installing gperftools:
https://code.google.com/p/gperftools/
Everything worked, and I see that the project links to /usr/local/lib
I'd like to put the library in a folder local to my project, instead.
The reasoning behind this is that I'm putting the project on different machines, and I just need to link against the libprofiler and libtcmalloc libraries, instead of the entire package, that also comes with the pprof and such.
The machines also have different architectures, so I actually need to build into that directory, instead of copy-pasting over
Is this a trivial thing to do?
gperftools uses autoconf/automake, so you can do
./configure --prefix=/path/to/whereever
make
make install
This works for all autotools projects, unless they are severely broken.
On that note, it is generally a good idea to read the INSTALL file in a source tree to find out about this sort of stuff. There is one in the gperftools sources, and this is documented there.