Re: AM_PATH_LISPDIR

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Felix" == Felix Natter <address@hidden> writes:

Felix> In configure, AM_PATH_LISPDIR reports that emacs in in /usr/bin/emacs,
Felix> and "where .elc files should go" is $(prefix)/share/emacs/site-lisp.
Felix> (which is /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp in my case).

Felix> So it uses the prefix of the package.
Felix> Shouldn't it use the prefix of the emacs found ?

My recollection is that we decided that, by default, Automake should
not install a file somewhere other than underneath $prefix.

The person building the package can use --with-lispdir to redirect the
files if that is what is appropriate for his system.

This is just what I remembe.  Alexandre Oliva might know the answer
for real.  He rewrote most of lispdir.m4 (in 1999.  If he's like me
that info is long gone).

Tom