title: RocksDB make install
body: <p>From the (slightly) outdated <a href="http://pyrocksdb.readthedocs.org/en/v0.2.1/installation.html#building-pyrocksdb" rel="nofollow">documentation on pyrocksdb</a>, it says:</p>
  
  <p>"If you do not want to call <code>make install</code> export the following enviroment variables:"</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=${CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH}:`pwd`/include
  $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:`pwd`
  $ export LIBRARY_PATH=${LIBRARY_PATH}:`pwd`
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But the <a href="https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/blob/master/INSTALL.md" rel="nofollow">installation instructions for RocksDB</a> do not seem to mention any sort of <code>install</code> target!</p>
  
  <p><strong>Is there an accepted procedure for installing RocksDB from source?</strong></p>
  
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  <p>My thoughts are to just copy the contents of the <code>include</code> directory from the rocksdb directory into somewhere like <code>/usr/local/include</code> and copy the <code>librocksdb.so</code> and <code>librocksdb.a</code> files into <code>/usr/local/lib</code>.  Is this an acceptable method?  </p>
  
  <p>Note: The method of exporting environment variables was less preferable to me, as I built rocksdb in a directory inside my home folder--I am hoping for a cleaner solution (interpret that how you want).</p>