Ralph wrote:
Well,
https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html
says
and:
Installers are expected to override these values when calling
make (e.g., make prefix=/usr install) or configure (e.g.,
configure --prefix=/usr). GNU packages should not try to guess
which value should be appropriate for these variables on the
system they are being installed onto: use the default settings
specified here so that all GNU packages behave identically,
allowing the installer to achieve any desired layout.
I'd thought of adding these to Makefile.am:
sysconfdir = ${prefix}/etc/nmh
docdir = ${prefix}/share/doc/nmh
but they depend on current defaults for other variables (datarootdir).
As we've seen, those change over time. And there doesn't seem to be
an easy way to let the shell expand variables to avoid that.
I think we should go with the autoconf defaults, and add --libexecdir
and --sysconfdir configure options with trailing /nmh in build_nmh.
David
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