Request for clarification on menu/file spec

[Thiago Macieira]

Waldo Bastian wrote:
>datadir is an autoconf-ism, the implicit assumption here is that a
> binary is installed to {prefix}/bin and it's data files to locations
> under {prefix}/share. E.g. an application would install manpages to
> {datadir}/man
>
>Note that this doesn't really consider the case of installing software
> in a user's home directory.

That's a good example, actually. By default, autoconf sets mandir = 
${prefix}/man. But FHS and other standards require manpages to be 
installed in ${datadir}/man instead. This means all package building 
systems must already tweak the configure scripts to install manpages 
properly.

So, if someone wants to install stuff in the home directory, they can just 
use:
configure --prefix=$HOME/myapp --bindir=$HOME/bin --datadir=$HOME/.local 
--sysconfdir=$HOME/.config
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