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

I tried the above solutions. None worked.

In the end I opened Makefile file and manually changed prefix path to desired installation path like below.

PREFIX ?= "installation path"

When I tried --prefix, "make" complained that there is not such command input. However, perhaps some packages accepts --prefix which is of course a cleaner solution.