lynx-dev why have --datadir=DIR if you can't use it?

[Nelson Henry Eric]

Pretty please?! (for the third time):

*** lynx2-8-2/makefile.in.orig  Wed Nov 18 13:06:20 1998
--- lynx2-8-2/makefile.in       Wed Nov 18 13:07:48 1998
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*** 48,56 ****
  helpdir= @libdir@/lynx_help
  
  ## Where your locale data is
! # datadir = @datadir@
! datadir = /usr/local/share
! localedir = $(datadir)/locale
  
  ##set the relative location of the WWW library Implementation directory,
  ##from this directory
--- 48,55 ----
  helpdir= @libdir@/lynx_help
  
  ## Where your locale data is
! datadir = @datadir@
! localedir = @datadir@/locale
  
  ##set the relative location of the WWW library Implementation directory,
  ##from this directory
*** lynx2-8-2/src/makefile.in.orig      Wed Nov 18 13:25:08 1998
--- lynx2-8-2/src/makefile.in   Wed Nov 18 13:25:45 1998
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*** 13,20 ****
  
  top_builddir  = ..
  
! # see po/makefile
! localedir     = $(prefix)/@DATADIRNAME@/locale
  
  # Symbols which the configure script can set in each makefile:
  CC            = @CC@
--- 13,19 ----
  
  top_builddir  = ..
  
! localedir     = @datadir@/locale
  
  # Symbols which the configure script can set in each makefile:
  CC            = @CC@