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

[dickey]

> 
> >     * Subject: lynx-dev why have --datadir=DIR if you can't use it? 
> >     * From: Nelson Henry Eric <address@hidden> 
> >     * Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 17:21:42 +0900 (JST) 
> >Pretty please?! (for the third time): 
> > 
> >  ## Where your locale data is 
> >! # datadir = @datadir@ 
> >! datadir = /usr/local/share 
> >! localedir = $(datadir)/locale 
>  
> For the record, I left this as a fixed value because I was unable to 
> figure out how to pass a configure value from the top-level down to 
> the correct place. Believe me, I tried. Perhaps now that others have 
> seen the code they can suggest how this value can be configured and 
> over-ridden. Apparently it works in the reference "hello" program but 
> that has a different top-level configure script and makefile. 

I modified that so that it uses the values that the chunk of autoconf
script which comes with gettext uses - that's done in src/makefile.in

Henry's change to ./makefile.in has no effect since the parameter
is not carried down to src - and it's not really good to do that with
makefile assignments since there's so many things it could be done
for & will rapidly become unusable.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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