Didier Verna <didier(a)xemacs.org> writes:
 I believe the only thing to modify in Local.rules to comply with an
 installation in share/ is the variable XEMACS_INSTALLED_PACKAGES_ROOT
 that should be set to /usr/local/share/xemacs. This is what I have been
 doing for years.
>> Did you modify the infrastructure to install in share now ?
>
> Probably not---I don't even know what infrastructure you're using :-)
   Now you know :-) 
Right---thanks for pointing this out!  Patch attached.  Will apply
Wednesday-ish if nobody objects.
 One last thing: I'm concerned with the situation where people use
both
 21.4 and 21.5. Will they need to duplicate their installed packages ? 
A symbolic link would suffice.
2007-07-31  Mike Sperber  <mike(a)xemacs.org>
	* configure.ac: Don't divert `share' to `lib' for datadir.
	Also, define AC_DATAROOTDIR_CHECKED to shut up autoconf.
-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla
Index: Local.rules.template
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RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/packages/Local.rules.template,v
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -u -r1.22 Local.rules.template
--- Local.rules.template	7 Nov 2004 23:52:55 -0000	1.22
+++ Local.rules.template	20 Aug 2007 14:08:15 -0000
@@ -50,11 +50,14 @@
 # mule-packages/ (Mule packages, if you built XEmacs with Mule,
 # i.e. international, support), and maybe site-packages/ (packages you
 # created yourself).  If you are installing XEmacs normally, this should be
-# <xemacs-root>/lib/xemacs, where <xemacs-root> is the topmost-level
-# directory under which everything is installed -- normally /usr/local, and
-# set using the `--prefix' parameter to `configure'.  See the INSTALL file.
+# <xemacs-root>/share/xemacs for XEmacs from 21.5 on and
+# <xemacs-root>/lib/xemacs for XEmacsen before 21.5, where
+# <xemacs-root> is the topmost-level directory under which everything
+ # is installed -- normally /usr/local, and set using the `--prefix'
+# parameter to `configure'.  See the INSTALL file.
 
-XEMACS_INSTALLED_PACKAGES_ROOT = /usr/local/lib/xemacs
+XEMACS_INSTALLED_PACKAGES_ROOT = /usr/local/share/xemacs
+# XEMACS_INSTALLED_PACKAGES_ROOT = /usr/local/lib/xemacs
 
 # If you are developing XEmacs, you probably don't want to install the
 # packages under /usr/local, which is where the stable, released version of
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