path you want, such as a path in your HOME dir or even one of the
standard prefix paths such as /usr or /usr/local if you like, but
using /opt this way lets me easily have multiple versions and ports
of wxWidgets "installed" and makes it easy to switch between them,
without impacting any versions of wxWidgets that may have been
installed via an RPM or whatever. For the rest of the steps below
path you want, such as a path in your HOME dir or even one of the
standard prefix paths such as /usr or /usr/local if you like, but
using /opt this way lets me easily have multiple versions and ports
of wxWidgets "installed" and makes it easy to switch between them,
without impacting any versions of wxWidgets that may have been
installed via an RPM or whatever. For the rest of the steps below