Using same unpacked tarball to configure to install software into multiple different spots on server

Working on rebuilding some AWS linux servers. I see my company's server has Apache Portable Runtime (APR) downloaded within our Apache webserver instance as well as Tomcat. What are the implications of configuring to install into multiple different locations/softwares, such as APR into Tomcat and Apache webserver? If I run ./configure --prefix=/opt/tomcat/ and then another ./configure --prefix=/opt/apache2/ I see it downloaded the packages in those places. Is this okay to do? Are there issues with doing this? I see this done on the old servers where openSSL is also downloaded within apache and tomcat, and I'm assuming it was done with this same approach. But just want to get a good explanation as to the why this either okay or bad practice.