Re: lynx-dev changing the installed lynx's directory layout

[Philip Webb]

990503 Vlad Harchev wrote: 
> I propose to change the directory structure in which lynx installs.
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the current idea of `installation' goes back to the Age of Giants,
when Lynx was intended for multiple-user systems
& an administrator installed the necessary files
in fairly standard directories on UNIX or VMS.

today, many users compile their own, often for DOS or Windows,
& it would make much more sense to have a simple list in  userdefs.h
inviting them to specify the exact paths they desire for each file;
there would be a default, if lynx-devers can agree on one.

i have had some difficulty in the past getting configure
to tell Lynx where to find the help files etc (it works now)
& always move the binary to  ~/bin  by hand
& leave the other files in the package where they originate.
it ought not to be such a mess for individual compilers.

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