On 7 August 2015 at 15:28, Adam Rossi <ac.rossi@gmail.com> wrote:

inherit autotools
EXTRA_OECONF = "--prefix=${D}/opt/myfolder"

The above is ignored, auto tools puts the results in /usr/bin

Autotools already passes --prefix so you should probably just set prefix in the recipe instead. Also don't use ${D}.

inherit autotools

prefix=/opt/myfolder

Ross