[21.5] Use .../share instead of .../lib for datadir

Michael Sperber sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Wed Aug 1 02:20:53 EDT 2007


"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> Ie, do you just get lispy cruft in $prefix/lib/xemacs-21.5.28/$arch
> that you can remove with rm -rf $prefix/lib/xemacs-21.5.28/$arch/lisp
> at some later date without any problems,

Yes.

> or is there any possibility that that could end up on the load-path?

No.

>  > 	Also, define AC_DATAROOTDIR_CHECKED to shut up autoconf.
>
> I'm not sure this is a good idea.  Is there a reason why we can't be
> datarootdir compliant (besides Just Saying No To Drugs)?  If not,
> shouldn't we flagellate ourselves with the warning until we are?

I did the work required to be compliant, but I couldn't get it to work
as advertised in the autoconf manual.  (I.e. datarootdir would always be
empty, and datadir wouldn't get defined in terms of it.)

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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