Re: LYNX-DEV hope the new Lynx release comes out soon!!!!!!!!

[Larry W. Virden, x2487]

Re: placement of lynx.cfg...

It seems to me that things should work like this.

Defaults:
        prefix = /usr/local             # placement of entire distribution
        exec-prefix = $prefix           # placement of just binary portion of 
distribution
        libdir = $prefix/lib            # placement of lynx.cfg at this time


The intention here is for
        executable to go into $exec-prefix/bin (i.e. /usr/local/bin/lynx)
        config file into $libdir/lynx.cfg (i.e. /usr/local/lib/lynx.cfg)
        man page into $prefix/man/man1/lynx.1 (/usr/local/man/man1/lynx.1)

Now, for linux, if folk want things generally under /usr, they change
$prefix.  This results in 
        executable to go into $exec-prefix/bin (i.e. /usr/bin/lynx)
        config file into $libdir/lynx.cfg (i.e. /usr/lib/lynx.cfg)
        man page into $prefix/man/man1/lynx.1 (/usr/man/man1/lynx.1)

For someone wanting to install in their own personal directory, and trying
to maintain different executables for multiple OSes, you ight see:

        --prefix=$HOME
        --exec-prefix=$HOME/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1
        --libdir=$HOME/lib/lynx

resulting in
        executable to go into $HOME/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/bin/lynx
        config file into $HOME/lib/lynx/lynx.cfg 
        man page into $HOME/man/man1/lynx.1 
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