Hello Jim, This is actually an Autoconf question. I don't think that's easy to infer, though.
* Jim Lynch wrote on Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 07:13:41PM CET: > [...] if I do a ./configure > --sysconfdir=/etc I get what I want. However as I advance in age, I > forget more than I used to so remembering to add that parameter [...] Remember it for all applications that use Autoconf: echo sysconfdir=/etc >>/usr/local/share/config.site or, if you can still be able to override it from the command line, use this line: test "$sysconfdir" = '${prefix}/etc' && sysconfdir=/etc Here's more information: <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Site-Defaults.html> Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf