Re: [Nmh-workers] possible problem with mhfixmsg in nmh-1.7

[David Levine]

Steven wrote:

> I've run into a few issues, most of which are trivial (and which I'll
> describe below for the sake of completeness),

Thank you for for detail description.  It looks like Ralph has addressed
the substantive issues.

> The other issues I mentioned are:
>
>   - It would be really nice if configure and Makefile.in didn't force a
>     trailing /nmh on the pathnames I supply for libexecdir and sysconfdir.

Forcing them seems to be a common convention.  It does help avoid namespace
collisions.

>     This is trivial because it was easy enough to edit both files myself
>     to make the change I wanted, but it would be much nicer if there were
>     a way to do that by supplying an option to configure.

An alternative would be to install using something like:

    make install nmhetcdir='${prefix}/etc' 
nmhlibexecdir='${exec_prefix}/libexec'

though I agree that nmh should make them configurable.

David