I don't know, it WFM. So there is either something very slightly different in what you did from what you think you did or there is a problem with one of the tools on your system.

Maybe try it again

mkdir /someabsolutepath; extract the tarball to /someabsolutepath; cd /someabsolutepath/geany-1.25; ./configure --prefix=/someabsolutepath; make install; ../bin/geany --print-prefix

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