Re: HTML format documentation

[Richard Stallman]

    Either that or one gives up on the sillyness of allowing the user to
    choose the actual name of the prefix and instead simply encode the
    expected defaults for various platforms into Autoconf (i.e. /usr,
    /usr/pkg, /usr/local, or whatever) and allow the user only to specify
    whether or not he/she wants to insall the package as part of the native
    system (and thus perhaps over top of native system parts), or as part of
    local add-on packages (which may duplicate some native system
    functionality).

This seems like a useful feature, but we don't have to think of it
as an alternative to prefix.  It can be a new optional way of
specifying prefix, sysconfdir, and whatever--under control
of some new make variable.

Can this be implemented in makefiles in a way that works with ordinary
Make?