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> > Nope.  It will just be /usr/local/bin because, like the original
> > suggestion, I also symbolic link everything into /usr/local/bin (as well
> > as /usr/local/include, /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/lib/app-defaults, ...).
> 
> But, if the PREFIX is actually compiled in, you might not have to symlink the
> rest of those directories (the actual binaries should have the explicit path

Well, it depends.  If I want the app-defaults file to be found via the
search path method, I will have to have a big path variable, or symlink
the files.

Same goes for include files and libraries (shared libraries definitely
have to be symlinked because they need to be registered and I don't
want to fiddle with /etc/rc every time I add a new library).

Ern