Re: gettext: doc/Makefile.am (docdir)

[Bruno Haible]

Karl Eichwalder writes:
> > Please, consider to use a predefined variable; thus doc stuff end up
> > under @datadir@ (e.g., /usr/share instead of /usr on systems where
> > appropriate):
> --- Makefile.am.~1.19.~       Thu May  2 17:31:58 2002
> +++ Makefile.am       Thu Jul 18 03:44:36 2002
> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
>  
>  ## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in.
>  
> -docdir = $(prefix)/doc/@PACKAGE@
> +docdir = $(datadir)/doc/@PACKAGE@
>  dvidir = $(docdir)
>  psdir = $(docdir)
>  pdfdir = $(docdir)

Akim, I think the default for docdir should be the same expression
across all packages. Can you document, in autoconf, that the one who
runs a configure script can set the variables

    docdir [default: $(datadir)/doc/@address@hidden
and
    localedir [default: $(datadir)/locale]

or similarly with $(datarootdir) instead of $(datadir), when RMS's
current proposal becomes official? This should ideally be part of the
"./configure --help" output.

Bruno