Make install, but not to default directories?

Question

I want to run \'make install\' so I have everything I need, but I\'d like it to install the things in their own folder as opposed to the system\'s /usr/bin etc. is that poss

Answer 1

Since don't know which version of automake you can use DESTDIR environment variable.
See Makefile to be sure.

For example:

 export DESTDIR="$HOME/Software/LocalInstall" && make -j4 install