diff --git a/scripts/eosio_build.sh b/scripts/eosio_build.sh
index a97ceaa5058..32395919051 100755
--- a/scripts/eosio_build.sh
+++ b/scripts/eosio_build.sh
@@ -30,62 +30,21 @@
 # https://github.com/EOSIO/eos/blob/master/LICENSE
 ##########################################################################
 
-VERSION=2.2 # Build script version
+VERSION=2.3 # Build script version
+
+# defaults for command-line arguments
 CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
 DOXYGEN=false
 ENABLE_COVERAGE_TESTING=false
 CORE_SYMBOL_NAME="SYS"
-START_MAKE=true
+NONINTERACTIVE=0
+PREFIX=$HOME
 
 TIME_BEGIN=$( date -u +%s )
 txtbld=$(tput bold)
 bldred=${txtbld}$(tput setaf 1)
 txtrst=$(tput sgr0)
 
-export SRC_LOCATION=${HOME}/src
-export OPT_LOCATION=${HOME}/opt
-export VAR_LOCATION=${HOME}/var
-export ETC_LOCATION=${HOME}/etc
-export BIN_LOCATION=${HOME}/bin
-export DATA_LOCATION=${HOME}/data
-export CMAKE_VERSION_MAJOR=3
-export CMAKE_VERSION_MINOR=13
-export CMAKE_VERSION_PATCH=2
-export CMAKE_VERSION=${CMAKE_VERSION_MAJOR}.${CMAKE_VERSION_MINOR}.${CMAKE_VERSION_PATCH}
-export MONGODB_VERSION=3.6.3
-export MONGODB_ROOT=${OPT_LOCATION}/mongodb-${MONGODB_VERSION}
-export MONGODB_CONF=${ETC_LOCATION}/mongod.conf
-export MONGODB_LOG_LOCATION=${VAR_LOCATION}/log/mongodb
-export MONGODB_LINK_LOCATION=${OPT_LOCATION}/mongodb
-export MONGODB_DATA_LOCATION=${DATA_LOCATION}/mongodb
-export MONGO_C_DRIVER_VERSION=1.13.0
-export MONGO_C_DRIVER_ROOT=${SRC_LOCATION}/mongo-c-driver-${MONGO_C_DRIVER_VERSION}
-export MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION=3.4.0
-export MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_ROOT=${SRC_LOCATION}/mongo-cxx-driver-r${MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION}
-export BOOST_VERSION_MAJOR=1
-export BOOST_VERSION_MINOR=67
-export BOOST_VERSION_PATCH=0
-export BOOST_VERSION=${BOOST_VERSION_MAJOR}_${BOOST_VERSION_MINOR}_${BOOST_VERSION_PATCH}
-export BOOST_ROOT=${SRC_LOCATION}/boost_${BOOST_VERSION}
-export BOOST_LINK_LOCATION=${OPT_LOCATION}/boost
-export LLVM_VERSION=release_40
-export LLVM_ROOT=${OPT_LOCATION}/llvm
-export LLVM_DIR=${LLVM_ROOT}/lib/cmake/llvm
-export DOXYGEN_VERSION=1_8_14
-export DOXYGEN_ROOT=${SRC_LOCATION}/doxygen-${DOXYGEN_VERSION}
-export TINI_VERSION=0.18.0
-export DISK_MIN=5
-
-# Setup directories
-mkdir -p $SRC_LOCATION
-mkdir -p $OPT_LOCATION
-mkdir -p $VAR_LOCATION
-mkdir -p $BIN_LOCATION
-mkdir -p $VAR_LOCATION/log
-mkdir -p $ETC_LOCATION
-mkdir -p $MONGODB_LOG_LOCATION
-mkdir -p $MONGODB_DATA_LOCATION
-
 SCRIPT_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
 REPO_ROOT="${SCRIPT_DIR}/.."
 BUILD_DIR="${REPO_ROOT}/build"
@@ -101,14 +60,21 @@ fi
 
 function usage()
 {
-   printf "Usage: %s \\n[Build Option -o <Debug|Release|RelWithDebInfo|MinSizeRel>] \\n[CodeCoverage -c] \\n[Doxygen -d] \\n[CoreSymbolName -s <1-7 characters>] \\n[Avoid Compiling -a]\\n[Noninteractive -y]\\n\\n" "$0" 1>&2
+    cat >&2 <<EOT
+Usage: $0 OPTION...
+  -o TYPE     Build <Debug|Release|RelWithDebInfo|MinSizeRel> (default: Release)
+  -p DIR      Prefix directory for dependencies & EOS install (default: $HOME)
+  -b DIR      Use pre-built boost in DIR
+  -c          Enable Code Coverage
+  -d          Generate Doxygen
+  -s NAME     Core Symbol Name <1-7 characters> (default: SYS)
+  -y          Noninteractive mode (this script)
+EOT
    exit 1
 }
 
-NONINTERACTIVE=0
-
 if [ $# -ne 0 ]; then
-   while getopts ":cdo:s:ahy" opt; do
+   while getopts ":cdo:s:p:b:hy" opt; do
       case "${opt}" in
          o )
             options=( "Debug" "Release" "RelWithDebInfo" "MinSizeRel" )
@@ -134,10 +100,13 @@ if [ $# -ne 0 ]; then
             else
                CORE_SYMBOL_NAME="${OPTARG}"
             fi
-         ;;
-         a)
-            START_MAKE=false
-         ;;
+            ;;
+         b)
+             BOOST_ARG=$OPTARG
+             ;;
+         p)
+             PREFIX=$OPTARG
+             ;;
          h)
             usage
             exit 1
@@ -170,6 +139,42 @@ if [ ! -d "${REPO_ROOT}/.git" ]; then
    exit 1
 fi
 
+export CMAKE_VERSION_MAJOR=3
+export CMAKE_VERSION_MINOR=13
+export CMAKE_VERSION_PATCH=2
+export CMAKE_VERSION=${CMAKE_VERSION_MAJOR}.${CMAKE_VERSION_MINOR}.${CMAKE_VERSION_PATCH}
+
+export SRC_LOCATION=$PREFIX/src
+export OPT_LOCATION=$PREFIX/opt
+export VAR_LOCATION=$PREFIX/var
+export ETC_LOCATION=$PREFIX/etc
+export BIN_LOCATION=$PREFIX/bin
+export DATA_LOCATION=$PREFIX/data
+
+export MONGODB_VERSION=3.6.3
+export MONGODB_ROOT=${OPT_LOCATION}/mongodb-${MONGODB_VERSION}
+export MONGODB_CONF=${ETC_LOCATION}/mongod.conf
+export MONGODB_LOG_LOCATION=${VAR_LOCATION}/log/mongodb
+export MONGODB_LINK_LOCATION=${OPT_LOCATION}/mongodb
+export MONGODB_DATA_LOCATION=${DATA_LOCATION}/mongodb
+export MONGO_C_DRIVER_VERSION=1.13.0
+export MONGO_C_DRIVER_ROOT=${SRC_LOCATION}/mongo-c-driver-${MONGO_C_DRIVER_VERSION}
+export MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION=3.4.0
+export MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_ROOT=${SRC_LOCATION}/mongo-cxx-driver-r${MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION}
+export BOOST_VERSION_MAJOR=1
+export BOOST_VERSION_MINOR=67
+export BOOST_VERSION_PATCH=0
+export BOOST_VERSION=${BOOST_VERSION_MAJOR}_${BOOST_VERSION_MINOR}_${BOOST_VERSION_PATCH}
+export BOOST_ROOT=${BOOST_ARG:-${SRC_LOCATION}/boost_${BOOST_VERSION}}
+export BOOST_LINK_LOCATION=${OPT_LOCATION}/boost
+export LLVM_VERSION=release_40
+export LLVM_ROOT=${OPT_LOCATION}/llvm
+export LLVM_DIR=${LLVM_ROOT}/lib/cmake/llvm
+export DOXYGEN_VERSION=1_8_14
+export DOXYGEN_ROOT=${SRC_LOCATION}/doxygen-${DOXYGEN_VERSION}
+export TINI_VERSION=0.18.0
+export DISK_MIN=5
+
 cd $REPO_ROOT
 
 STALE_SUBMODS=$(( $(git submodule status --recursive | grep -c "^[+\-]") ))
@@ -179,6 +184,16 @@ if [ $STALE_SUBMODS -gt 0 ]; then
    exit 1
 fi
 
+# Setup directories
+mkdir -p $SRC_LOCATION
+mkdir -p $OPT_LOCATION
+mkdir -p $VAR_LOCATION
+mkdir -p $BIN_LOCATION
+mkdir -p $VAR_LOCATION/log
+mkdir -p $ETC_LOCATION
+mkdir -p $MONGODB_LOG_LOCATION
+mkdir -p $MONGODB_DATA_LOCATION
+
 printf "\\nBeginning build version: %s\\n" "${VERSION}"
 printf "%s\\n" "$( date -u )"
 printf "User: %s\\n" "$( whoami )"
@@ -193,7 +208,7 @@ export CMAKE=$(command -v cmake 2>/dev/null)
 
 if [ "$ARCH" == "Linux" ]; then
    # Check if cmake is already installed or not and use source install location
-   if [ -z $CMAKE ]; then export CMAKE=$HOME/bin/cmake; fi
+   if [ -z $CMAKE ]; then export CMAKE=$PREFIX/bin/cmake; fi
    export OS_NAME=$( cat /etc/os-release | grep ^NAME | cut -d'=' -f2 | sed 's/\"//gI' )
    OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR=/usr/include/openssl
    if [ ! -e /etc/os-release ]; then
@@ -256,7 +271,7 @@ if [ "$ARCH" == "Darwin" ]; then
    export OS_NAME=MacOSX
    # opt/gettext: cleos requires Intl, which requires gettext; it's keg only though and we don't want to force linking: https://github.com/EOSIO/eos/issues/2240#issuecomment-396309884
    # HOME/lib/cmake: mongo_db_plugin.cpp:25:10: fatal error: 'bsoncxx/builder/basic/kvp.hpp' file not found
-   LOCAL_CMAKE_FLAGS="-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr/local/opt/gettext;$HOME/lib/cmake ${LOCAL_CMAKE_FLAGS}" 
+   LOCAL_CMAKE_FLAGS="-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr/local/opt/gettext;$HOME/lib/cmake ${LOCAL_CMAKE_FLAGS}"
    FILE="${REPO_ROOT}/scripts/eosio_build_darwin.sh"
    CXX_COMPILER=clang++
    C_COMPILER=clang
@@ -283,6 +298,7 @@ $CMAKE -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}" -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER="${CXX_COMP
    -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER="${C_COMPILER}" -DCORE_SYMBOL_NAME="${CORE_SYMBOL_NAME}" \
    -DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR="${OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR}" -DBUILD_MONGO_DB_PLUGIN=true \
    -DENABLE_COVERAGE_TESTING="${ENABLE_COVERAGE_TESTING}" -DBUILD_DOXYGEN="${DOXYGEN}" \
+   -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$PREFIX \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$OPT_LOCATION/eosio $LOCAL_CMAKE_FLAGS "${REPO_ROOT}"
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then exit -1; fi
 make -j"${JOBS}"
@@ -306,7 +322,7 @@ printf "========================================================================
 printf "(Optional) Testing Instructions:\\n"
 print_instructions
 printf "${BIN_LOCATION}/mongod --dbpath ${MONGODB_DATA_LOCATION} -f ${MONGODB_CONF} --logpath ${MONGODB_LOG_LOCATION}/mongod.log &\\n"
-printf "cd ./build && PATH=\$PATH:$HOME/opt/mongodb/bin make test\\n" # PATH is set as currently 'mongo' binary is required for the mongodb test
+printf "cd ./build && PATH=\$PATH:$MONGODB_LINK_LOCATION/bin make test\\n" # PATH is set as currently 'mongo' binary is required for the mongodb test
 printf "${txtrst}==============================================================================================\\n"
 printf "For more information:\\n"
 printf "EOSIO website: https://eos.io\\n"
@@ -314,4 +330,3 @@ printf "EOSIO Telegram channel @ https://t.me/EOSProject\\n"
 printf "EOSIO resources: https://eos.io/resources/\\n"
 printf "EOSIO Stack Exchange: https://eosio.stackexchange.com\\n"
 printf "EOSIO wiki: https://github.com/EOSIO/eos/wiki\\n\\n\\n"
-
diff --git a/scripts/eosio_build_amazon.sh b/scripts/eosio_build_amazon.sh
index ff655496a7b..1fb2af1ebc9 100755
--- a/scripts/eosio_build_amazon.sh
+++ b/scripts/eosio_build_amazon.sh
@@ -9,16 +9,16 @@ DISK_TOTAL=$(( DISK_TOTAL_KB / 1048576 ))
 DISK_AVAIL=$(( DISK_AVAIL_KB / 1048576 ))
 
 if [[ "${OS_NAME}" == "Amazon Linux AMI" ]]; then # Amazonlinux1
-	DEP_ARRAY=( 
+	DEP_ARRAY=(
 		sudo procps util-linux which gcc72 gcc72-c++ autoconf automake libtool make doxygen graphviz \
 		bzip2 bzip2-devel openssl-devel gmp gmp-devel libstdc++72 python27 python27-devel python36 python36-devel \
 		libedit-devel ncurses-devel swig wget file libcurl-devel libusb1-devel
 	)
 else # Amazonlinux2
-	DEP_ARRAY=( 
+	DEP_ARRAY=(
 		git procps-ng util-linux gcc gcc-c++ autoconf automake libtool make bzip2 \
 		bzip2-devel openssl-devel gmp-devel libstdc++ libcurl-devel libusbx-devel \
-		python3 python3-devel python-devel libedit-devel doxygen graphviz 
+		python3 python3-devel python-devel libedit-devel doxygen graphviz
 	)
 fi
 
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ if [ ! -e $CMAKE ]; then
 	curl -LO https://cmake.org/files/v$CMAKE_VERSION_MAJOR.$CMAKE_VERSION_MINOR/cmake-$CMAKE_VERSION.tar.gz \
 	&& tar -xzf cmake-$CMAKE_VERSION.tar.gz \
 	&& cd cmake-$CMAKE_VERSION \
-	&& ./bootstrap --prefix=$HOME \
+	&& ./bootstrap --prefix=$PREFIX \
 	&& make -j"${JOBS}" \
 	&& make install \
 	&& cd .. \
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ printf "\\n"
 
 
 printf "Checking Boost library (${BOOST_VERSION}) installation...\\n"
-BOOSTVERSION=$( grep "#define BOOST_VERSION" "$HOME/opt/boost/include/boost/version.hpp" 2>/dev/null | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d\  -f3 )
+BOOSTVERSION=$( grep "#define BOOST_VERSION" "$BOOST_ROOT/include/boost/version.hpp" 2>/dev/null | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d\  -f3 )
 if [ "${BOOSTVERSION}" != "${BOOST_VERSION_MAJOR}0${BOOST_VERSION_MINOR}0${BOOST_VERSION_PATCH}" ]; then
 	printf "Installing Boost library...\\n"
 	curl -LO https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/${BOOST_VERSION_MAJOR}.${BOOST_VERSION_MINOR}.${BOOST_VERSION_PATCH}/source/boost_$BOOST_VERSION.tar.bz2 \
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ if [ ! -d $MONGO_C_DRIVER_ROOT ]; then
 	&& cd mongo-c-driver-$MONGO_C_DRIVER_VERSION \
 	&& mkdir -p cmake-build \
 	&& cd cmake-build \
-	&& $CMAKE -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME -DENABLE_BSON=ON -DENABLE_SSL=OPENSSL -DENABLE_AUTOMATIC_INIT_AND_CLEANUP=OFF -DENABLE_STATIC=ON .. \
+	&& $CMAKE -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PREFIX -DENABLE_BSON=ON -DENABLE_SSL=OPENSSL -DENABLE_AUTOMATIC_INIT_AND_CLEANUP=OFF -DENABLE_STATIC=ON .. \
 	&& make -j"${JOBS}" \
 	&& make install \
 	&& cd ../.. \
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ if [ ! -d $MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_ROOT ]; then
 	curl -L https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-cxx-driver/archive/r$MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION.tar.gz -o mongo-cxx-driver-r$MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION.tar.gz \
 	&& tar -xzf mongo-cxx-driver-r${MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION}.tar.gz \
 	&& cd mongo-cxx-driver-r$MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION/build \
-	&& $CMAKE -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME .. \
+	&& $CMAKE -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PREFIX .. \
 	&& make -j"${JOBS}" VERBOSE=1 \
 	&& make install \
 	&& cd ../.. \
diff --git a/scripts/eosio_build_centos.sh b/scripts/eosio_build_centos.sh
index 621001d0a97..3988aef50a4 100755
--- a/scripts/eosio_build_centos.sh
+++ b/scripts/eosio_build_centos.sh
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ printf "CPU speed: ${CPU_SPEED}Mhz\\n"
 printf "CPU cores: ${CPU_CORE}\\n"
 printf "Physical Memory: ${MEM_MEG}Mgb\\n"
 printf "Disk install: ${DISK_INSTALL}\\n"
-printf "Disk space total: ${DISK_TOTAL%.*}G\\n" 
+printf "Disk space total: ${DISK_TOTAL%.*}G\\n"
 printf "Disk space available: ${DISK_AVAIL%.*}G\\n"
 printf "Concurrent Jobs (make -j): ${JOBS}\\n"
 
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ fi
 
 printf "\\n"
 
-DEP_ARRAY=( 
+DEP_ARRAY=(
 	git autoconf automake libtool make bzip2 doxygen graphviz \
 	bzip2-devel openssl-devel gmp-devel \
 	ocaml libicu-devel python python-devel rh-python36 \
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ if [ ! -e $CMAKE ]; then
 	curl -LO https://cmake.org/files/v$CMAKE_VERSION_MAJOR.$CMAKE_VERSION_MINOR/cmake-$CMAKE_VERSION.tar.gz \
 	&& tar -xzf cmake-$CMAKE_VERSION.tar.gz \
 	&& cd cmake-$CMAKE_VERSION \
-	&& ./bootstrap --prefix=$HOME \
+	&& ./bootstrap --prefix=$PREFIX \
 	&& make -j"${JOBS}" \
 	&& make install \
 	&& cd .. \
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ printf "\\n"
 
 export CPATH="${CPATH}:${PYTHON3PATH}/root/usr/include/python3.6m" # m on the end causes problems with boost finding python3
 printf "Checking Boost library (${BOOST_VERSION}) installation...\\n"
-BOOSTVERSION=$( grep "#define BOOST_VERSION" "$HOME/opt/boost/include/boost/version.hpp" 2>/dev/null | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d\  -f3 )
+BOOSTVERSION=$( grep "#define BOOST_VERSION" "$BOOST_ROOT/include/boost/version.hpp" 2>/dev/null | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d\  -f3 )
 if [ "${BOOSTVERSION}" != "${BOOST_VERSION_MAJOR}0${BOOST_VERSION_MINOR}0${BOOST_VERSION_PATCH}" ]; then
 	printf "Installing Boost library...\\n"
 	curl -LO https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/${BOOST_VERSION_MAJOR}.${BOOST_VERSION_MINOR}.${BOOST_VERSION_PATCH}/source/boost_$BOOST_VERSION.tar.bz2 \
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ if [ ! -d $MONGODB_ROOT ]; then
 	printf " - MongoDB successfully installed @ ${MONGODB_ROOT} (Symlinked to ${MONGODB_LINK_LOCATION}).\\n"
 else
 	printf " - MongoDB found with correct version @ ${MONGODB_ROOT} (Symlinked to ${MONGODB_LINK_LOCATION}).\\n"
-fi 
+fi
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then exit -1; fi
 printf "Checking MongoDB C driver installation...\\n"
 if [ ! -d $MONGO_C_DRIVER_ROOT ]; then
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ if [ ! -d $MONGO_C_DRIVER_ROOT ]; then
 	&& cd mongo-c-driver-$MONGO_C_DRIVER_VERSION \
 	&& mkdir -p cmake-build \
 	&& cd cmake-build \
-	&& $CMAKE -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME -DENABLE_BSON=ON -DENABLE_SSL=OPENSSL -DENABLE_AUTOMATIC_INIT_AND_CLEANUP=OFF -DENABLE_STATIC=ON .. \
+	&& $CMAKE -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PREFIX -DENABLE_BSON=ON -DENABLE_SSL=OPENSSL -DENABLE_AUTOMATIC_INIT_AND_CLEANUP=OFF -DENABLE_STATIC=ON .. \
 	&& make -j"${JOBS}" \
 	&& make install \
 	&& cd ../.. \
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ if [ ! -d $MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_ROOT ]; then
 	curl -L https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-cxx-driver/archive/r$MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION.tar.gz -o mongo-cxx-driver-r$MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION.tar.gz \
 	&& tar -xzf mongo-cxx-driver-r${MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION}.tar.gz \
 	&& cd mongo-cxx-driver-r$MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION/build \
-	&& $CMAKE -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME .. \
+	&& $CMAKE -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PREFIX .. \
 	&& make -j"${JOBS}" VERBOSE=1 \
 	&& make install \
 	&& cd ../.. \
diff --git a/scripts/eosio_build_darwin.sh b/scripts/eosio_build_darwin.sh
index 224b0839f1d..947dbb848c6 100755
--- a/scripts/eosio_build_darwin.sh
+++ b/scripts/eosio_build_darwin.sh
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ printf "\\n"
 
 export CPATH="$(python-config --includes | awk '{print $1}' | cut -dI -f2):$CPATH" # Boost has trouble finding pyconfig.h
 printf "Checking Boost library (${BOOST_VERSION}) installation...\\n"
-BOOSTVERSION=$( grep "#define BOOST_VERSION" "$HOME/opt/boost/include/boost/version.hpp" 2>/dev/null | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d\  -f3 )
+BOOSTVERSION=$( grep "#define BOOST_VERSION" "$BOOST_ROOT/include/boost/version.hpp" 2>/dev/null | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d\  -f3 )
 if [ "${BOOSTVERSION}" != "${BOOST_VERSION_MAJOR}0${BOOST_VERSION_MINOR}0${BOOST_VERSION_PATCH}" ]; then
 	printf "Installing Boost library...\\n"
 	curl -LO https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/$BOOST_VERSION_MAJOR.$BOOST_VERSION_MINOR.$BOOST_VERSION_PATCH/source/boost_$BOOST_VERSION.tar.bz2 \
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ if [ ! -d $MONGO_C_DRIVER_ROOT ]; then
 	&& cd mongo-c-driver-$MONGO_C_DRIVER_VERSION \
 	&& mkdir -p cmake-build \
 	&& cd cmake-build \
-	&& $CMAKE -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME -DENABLE_BSON=ON -DENABLE_SSL=DARWIN -DENABLE_AUTOMATIC_INIT_AND_CLEANUP=OFF -DENABLE_STATIC=ON .. \
+	&& $CMAKE -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PREFIX -DENABLE_BSON=ON -DENABLE_SSL=DARWIN -DENABLE_AUTOMATIC_INIT_AND_CLEANUP=OFF -DENABLE_STATIC=ON .. \
 	&& make -j"${JOBS}" \
 	&& make install \
 	&& cd ../.. \
@@ -228,12 +228,12 @@ else
 fi
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then exit -1; fi
 printf "Checking MongoDB C++ driver installation...\\n"
-if [ "$(grep "Version:" $HOME/lib/pkgconfig/libmongocxx-static.pc 2>/dev/null | tr -s ' ' | awk '{print $2}')" != $MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION ]; then
+if [ "$(grep "Version:" $PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig/libmongocxx-static.pc 2>/dev/null | tr -s ' ' | awk '{print $2}')" != $MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION ]; then
 	printf "Installing MongoDB C++ driver...\\n"
 	curl -L https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-cxx-driver/archive/r$MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION.tar.gz -o mongo-cxx-driver-r$MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION.tar.gz \
 	&& tar -xzf mongo-cxx-driver-r${MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION}.tar.gz \
 	&& cd mongo-cxx-driver-r$MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION/build \
-	&& $CMAKE -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME .. \
+	&& $CMAKE -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PREFIX .. \
 	&& make -j"${JOBS}" VERBOSE=1 \
 	&& make install \
 	&& cd ../.. \
diff --git a/scripts/eosio_build_fedora.sh b/scripts/eosio_build_fedora.sh
index c27f47658d3..b1429b01931 100755
--- a/scripts/eosio_build_fedora.sh
+++ b/scripts/eosio_build_fedora.sh
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ printf "Disk space total: ${DISK_TOTAL%.*}G\\n"
 printf "Disk space available: ${DISK_AVAIL%.*}G\\n"
 
 # llvm is symlinked from /usr/lib64/llvm4.0 into user's home
-DEP_ARRAY=( 
+DEP_ARRAY=(
 	git sudo procps-ng which gcc gcc-c++ autoconf automake libtool make \
 	bzip2-devel wget bzip2 compat-openssl10 graphviz doxygen \
 	openssl-devel gmp-devel libstdc++-devel python2 python2-devel python3 python3-devel \
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ if [ ! -e $CMAKE ]; then
 	curl -LO https://cmake.org/files/v$CMAKE_VERSION_MAJOR.$CMAKE_VERSION_MINOR/cmake-$CMAKE_VERSION.tar.gz \
 	&& tar -xzf cmake-$CMAKE_VERSION.tar.gz \
 	&& cd cmake-$CMAKE_VERSION \
-	&& ./bootstrap --prefix=$HOME \
+	&& ./bootstrap --prefix=$PREFIX \
 	&& make -j"${JOBS}" \
 	&& make install \
 	&& cd .. \
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ printf "\\n"
 
 
 printf "Checking Boost library (${BOOST_VERSION}) installation...\\n"
-BOOSTVERSION=$( grep "#define BOOST_VERSION" "$HOME/opt/boost/include/boost/version.hpp" 2>/dev/null | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d\  -f3 )
+BOOSTVERSION=$( grep "#define BOOST_VERSION" "$BOOST_ROOT/include/boost/version.hpp" 2>/dev/null | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d\  -f3 )
 if [ "${BOOSTVERSION}" != "${BOOST_VERSION_MAJOR}0${BOOST_VERSION_MINOR}0${BOOST_VERSION_PATCH}" ]; then
 	printf "Installing Boost library...\\n"
 	curl -LO https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/${BOOST_VERSION_MAJOR}.${BOOST_VERSION_MINOR}.${BOOST_VERSION_PATCH}/source/boost_$BOOST_VERSION.tar.bz2 \
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ if [ ! -d $MONGO_C_DRIVER_ROOT ]; then
 	&& cd mongo-c-driver-$MONGO_C_DRIVER_VERSION \
 	&& mkdir -p cmake-build \
 	&& cd cmake-build \
-	&& $CMAKE -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME -DENABLE_BSON=ON -DENABLE_SSL=OPENSSL -DENABLE_AUTOMATIC_INIT_AND_CLEANUP=OFF -DENABLE_STATIC=ON .. \
+	&& $CMAKE -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PREFIX -DENABLE_BSON=ON -DENABLE_SSL=OPENSSL -DENABLE_AUTOMATIC_INIT_AND_CLEANUP=OFF -DENABLE_STATIC=ON .. \
 	&& make -j"${JOBS}" \
 	&& make install \
 	&& cd ../.. \
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ if [ ! -d $MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_ROOT ]; then
 	curl -L https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-cxx-driver/archive/r$MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION.tar.gz -o mongo-cxx-driver-r$MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION.tar.gz \
 	&& tar -xzf mongo-cxx-driver-r${MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION}.tar.gz \
 	&& cd mongo-cxx-driver-r$MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION/build \
-	&& $CMAKE -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME .. \
+	&& $CMAKE -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PREFIX .. \
 	&& make -j"${JOBS}" VERBOSE=1 \
 	&& make install \
 	&& cd ../.. \
@@ -233,4 +233,4 @@ printf "\\n"
 
 function print_instructions() {
 	return 0
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/scripts/eosio_build_ubuntu.sh b/scripts/eosio_build_ubuntu.sh
index 5561b14a450..a62d264394b 100755
--- a/scripts/eosio_build_ubuntu.sh
+++ b/scripts/eosio_build_ubuntu.sh
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ for (( i=0; i<${#DEP_ARRAY[@]}; i++ )); do
 done
 if [ "${COUNT}" -gt 1 ]; then
 	printf "\\nThe following dependencies are required to install EOSIO:\\n"
-	printf "${DISPLAY}\\n\\n" 
+	printf "${DISPLAY}\\n\\n"
 	if [ $ANSWER != 1 ]; then read -p "Do you wish to install these packages? (y/n) " ANSWER; fi
 	case $ANSWER in
 		1 | [Yy]* )
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ if [ "${COUNT}" -gt 1 ]; then
 		[Nn]* ) echo "User aborting installation of required dependencies, Exiting now."; exit;;
 		* ) echo "Please type 'y' for yes or 'n' for no."; exit;;
 	esac
-else 
+else
 	printf " - No required APT dependencies to install.\\n"
 fi
 
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ if [ ! -e $CMAKE ]; then
 	curl -LO https://cmake.org/files/v$CMAKE_VERSION_MAJOR.$CMAKE_VERSION_MINOR/cmake-$CMAKE_VERSION.tar.gz \
 	&& tar -xzf cmake-$CMAKE_VERSION.tar.gz \
 	&& cd cmake-$CMAKE_VERSION \
-	&& ./bootstrap --prefix=$HOME \
+	&& ./bootstrap --prefix=$PREFIX \
 	&& make -j"${JOBS}" \
 	&& make install \
 	&& cd .. \
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ printf "\\n"
 
 
 printf "Checking Boost library (${BOOST_VERSION}) installation...\\n"
-BOOSTVERSION=$( grep "#define BOOST_VERSION" "$HOME/opt/boost/include/boost/version.hpp" 2>/dev/null | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d\  -f3 )
+BOOSTVERSION=$( grep "#define BOOST_VERSION" "$BOOST_ROOT/include/boost/version.hpp" 2>/dev/null | tail -1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d\  -f3 )
 if [ "${BOOSTVERSION}" != "${BOOST_VERSION_MAJOR}0${BOOST_VERSION_MINOR}0${BOOST_VERSION_PATCH}" ]; then
 	printf "Installing Boost library...\\n"
 	curl -LO https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/${BOOST_VERSION_MAJOR}.${BOOST_VERSION_MINOR}.${BOOST_VERSION_PATCH}/source/boost_$BOOST_VERSION.tar.bz2 \
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ if [ ! -d $MONGO_C_DRIVER_ROOT ]; then
 	&& cd mongo-c-driver-$MONGO_C_DRIVER_VERSION \
 	&& mkdir -p cmake-build \
 	&& cd cmake-build \
-	&& $CMAKE -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME -DENABLE_BSON=ON -DENABLE_SSL=OPENSSL -DENABLE_AUTOMATIC_INIT_AND_CLEANUP=OFF -DENABLE_STATIC=ON .. \
+	&& $CMAKE -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PREFIX -DENABLE_BSON=ON -DENABLE_SSL=OPENSSL -DENABLE_AUTOMATIC_INIT_AND_CLEANUP=OFF -DENABLE_STATIC=ON .. \
 	&& make -j"${JOBS}" \
 	&& make install \
 	&& cd ../.. \
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ if [ ! -d $MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_ROOT ]; then
 	curl -L https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-cxx-driver/archive/r$MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION.tar.gz -o mongo-cxx-driver-r$MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION.tar.gz \
 	&& tar -xzf mongo-cxx-driver-r${MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION}.tar.gz \
 	&& cd mongo-cxx-driver-r$MONGO_CXX_DRIVER_VERSION/build \
-	&& $CMAKE -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME .. \
+	&& $CMAKE -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PREFIX .. \
 	&& make -j"${JOBS}" VERBOSE=1 \
 	&& make install \
 	&& cd ../.. \
diff --git a/scripts/eosio_install.sh b/scripts/eosio_install.sh
index a858fd63430..ee2aba76e4f 100755
--- a/scripts/eosio_install.sh
+++ b/scripts/eosio_install.sh
@@ -6,19 +6,19 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2017, Respective Authors all rights reserved.
 #
 # After June 1, 2018 this software is available under the following terms:
-# 
+#
 # The MIT License
-# 
+#
 # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 # of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
 # in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
 # to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
 # copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
 # furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
-# 
+#
 # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
 # all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-# 
+#
 # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
 # IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
 # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
@@ -34,16 +34,6 @@ SCRIPT_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
 REPO_ROOT="${SCRIPT_DIR}/.."
 BUILD_DIR="${REPO_ROOT}/build"
 
-OPT_LOCATION=$HOME/opt
-BIN_LOCATION=$HOME/bin
-LIB_LOCATION=$HOME/lib
-mkdir -p $LIB_LOCATION
-
-CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
-TIME_BEGIN=$( date -u +%s )
-INSTALL_PREFIX=$OPT_LOCATION/eosio
-VERSION=1.2
-
 txtbld=$(tput bold)
 bldred=${txtbld}$(tput setaf 1)
 txtrst=$(tput sgr0)
@@ -58,11 +48,13 @@ if ! pushd "${BUILD_DIR}" &> /dev/null;then
    exit 1;
 fi
 
+CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$(grep ^CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX: CMakeCache.txt | sed 's/.*=//')
+
 if ! make install; then
    printf "\\nMAKE installing EOSIO has exited with the above error.\\n\\n"
    exit -1
 fi
-popd &> /dev/null 
+popd &> /dev/null
 
 printf "\n${bldred}      ___           ___           ___                       ___\n"
 printf "     /  /\\         /  /\\         /  /\\        ___          /  /\\ \n"
@@ -77,7 +69,7 @@ printf "    \\  \\::/       \\  \\::/        /__/:/        \\__\\/      \\  \\::
 printf "     \\__\\/         \\__\\/         \\__\\/                     \\__\\/ \n\n${txtrst}"
 
 printf "==============================================================================================\\n"
-printf "EOSIO has been installed into ${OPT_LOCATION}/eosio/bin!\\n"
+printf "EOSIO has been installed into ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin!\\n"
 printf "If you need to, you can uninstall using: ./scripts/full_uninstaller.sh (it will leave your data directory).\\n"
 printf "==============================================================================================\\n\\n"