I've done a bit more scouting. It seems to me that installed_system_lyxdir should be set in the configuration and stored in version.C which at least believes that the installed_system_lyxdir is in the right place.
Angus aleem@pneumon:src-> grep -n system_lyxdir *.C BufferView_pimpl.C:1471: string(AddPath(system_lyxdir, "examples")))); lyx_cb.C:497: AddName(system_lyxdir, "configure")); lyx_main.C:60:string system_lyxdir; lyx_main.C:277: // If we had a command line switch, system_lyxdir is already setlyx_main.C:279: if (!system_lyxdir.empty()) lyx_main.C:280: searchpath= MakeAbsPath(system_lyxdir) + ';'; lyx_main.C:352: system_lyxdir = OnlyPath(temp); lyx_main.C:355: system_lyxdir = NormalizePath(system_lyxdir); lyx_main.C:361: if (system_lyxdir != NormalizePath(lyxdir)) { lyx_main.C:365: << system_lyxdir << endl; lyx_main.C:371: if (system_lyxdir == "./") { lyx_main.C:390: system_lyxdir = LYX_DIR; lyx_main.C:396: << system_lyxdir << '\'' << endl; lyx_main.C:438: lyxrc.template_path = AddPath(system_lyxdir, "templates"); lyx_main.C:659: ::system(AddName(system_lyxdir, "configure").c_str()); lyx_main.C:844: system_lyxdir = argv[i + 1]; lyxfunc.C:1828: string(AddPath(system_lyxdir, "examples")))); lyxfunc.C:1905: string(AddPath(system_lyxdir, "examples")))); aleem@pneumon:src-> more version.C /* -*- C++ -*- */ /* * This file is part of * ====================================================== * * LyX, the High Level Word Processor * * Copyright 1995 Matthias Ettrich * Copyright 1995, 2001 The LyX Team. * *======================================================*/ /// char const * lyx_version = "1.2.0cvs"; /// char const * lyx_release_date = "Thu, Jan 11, 2001"; /// This version string is intended to be used in files created by LyX char const * lyx_docversion = "LyX 1.2"; /// This is the version information shown by 'lyx -version' char const * lyx_version_info = "Configuration\n Host type: alphaev5-dec-osf4.0e\n Special build flags: assertions included-libsigc\n C Compiler: deccc\n C Compiler flags: -O2\n C++ Compiler: deccxx \n C++ Compiler flags: -msg_display_number -msg_disable 11,193,236,261,401,611 -w0 -ptr /usr/users/aleem/OTHERS_CODE/lyx/devel/lyx_cxx_repository -O2\n Linker flags: \n Frontend: xforms\n libXpm version: 4.11\n libforms version: 0.89.8\n LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin\n LyX files dir: /usr/local/share/lyx-1.2.0cvs\n";