Eric Blake wrote: > 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 This is unrelated to localedir; therefore it's appropriate to change the subject line. > 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. You can achieve this yourself through two lines in the configure.ac: test "$infodir" != '${prefix}/info' || infodir='${datadir}/info' test "$mandir" != '${prefix}/man' || mandir='${datadir}/man' So, you see, you can produce FHS compliant installations without the need for datarootdir. Bruno
