Re: support for --localedir

[Eric Blake]

> I therefore propose to add a --localedir option that works like --mandir,
> --infodir, and so on.

This reminds me of my request, nearly a month ago, which seemed to fall on 
deaf ears:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2003-10/msg00033.html

The GNU Coding standards, http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_54.html#SEC54, 
require $(datarootdir), $(lispdir), and $(localedir), but Autoconf does not 
provide an easy way to define these for all packages and still show up in the 
`configure --help' output.

Besides, the current Autoconf defaults make it impossible to just override 
$(prefix) and still get binaries to /usr/bin but info to /usr/share/bin, which 
violates the FHS default recommendations.  Redefining $(infodir) and $(mandir) 
as recommended on the GNU Coding standards (ie. 
$(infodir)=$(datarootdir)/info, $(datarootdir)=$(prefix)/share) would fix 
this, too.

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Someday, I might put a cute statement here.

Eric Blake             address@hidden