> I therefore propose to add a --localedir option that works like --mandir, > --infodir, and so on.
This reminds me of my request, nearly a month ago, which seemed to fall on deaf ears:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-10/msg00033.html
The GNU Coding standards, http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_54.html#SEC54, require $(datarootdir), $(lispdir), and $(localedir), but Autoconf does not provide an easy way to define these for all packages and still show up in the `configure --help' output.
Besides, the current Autoconf defaults make it impossible to just override $(prefix) and still get binaries to /usr/bin but info to /usr/share/bin, which violates the FHS default recommendations. Redefining $(infodir) and $(mandir) as recommended on the GNU Coding standards (ie. $(infodir)=$(datarootdir)/info, $(datarootdir)=$(prefix)/share) would fix this, too.
-- Someday, I might put a cute statement here.
Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx
