On 2021-07-27, Eric Siegerman <invalid.nore...@gnu.org> wrote: > Follow-up Comment #4, sr #110212 (project autoconf): > > 0 Edit _configure.ac_: In the _AC_INIT()_ call, change the first argument > to > the name you want to use for the subdirectory > 0 Run _autoconf_ (perhaps indirectly, if the package provides an > _autogen.sh_ > script or the like) > 0 Run _configure_ with _--program-prefix_, _--program-suffix_, and/or > _--program-transform-name_, as desired > 0 Once the build is finished, do a test install into a scratch location > using > _DESTDIR=/where/ever_, and look it over to make sure all the pathnames that > needed to be changed, were in fact changed.
Instead of all this hackery you can just set pkgdatadir when you build the program, surely that's easier. For example: % make clean % make pkgdatadir=/wherever/you/want install This is expected to work with all build systems that follow the GNU coding standards. Cheers, Nick
