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[Uday Reddy <usr.vm.rocks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Ulrich.  I have applied the patch.

What about the Makefiles in other subdirectories?  Don't they need to be
updated too?

Do we still need datadir and datarootdir in the Makefiles now?

Also, the INSTALL file claims that the documentation will be installed in
${prefix}/share/doc/vm-X.Y.Z.  But, I don't see the -X.Y.Z part being
generated at the moment.

The reason for putting NEWS etc. files in two places is to satisfy the users
that follow Emacs conversions and those that follow Linux conventions.  We
have had plenty of problems in the past with users not knowing what has
changed because they had no access to the the NEWS file.

Cheers,
Uday

Ulrich Mueller writes:

> I've had some problems with path definitions:
> - Variable vm-configure-docdir and vm-configure-infodir are both empty
>   strings. Looks like their definition in lisp/Makefile.in is missing.
> - The data files (NEWS etc.) are installed into etcdir, therefore
>   vm-configure-datadir should be set to etcdir too. (One could think
>   about renaming the lisp variable to vm-configure-etcdir. However, in
>   the patch below I've chosen not to do this.)
> The patch included below addresses these path issues.
> 
> Also I'm not too happy that the NEWS etc. files are installed twice,
> in docdir and in etcdir. What do you think about installing them in
> docdir only, but with docdir being equal to etcdir by default (as it's
> the case for XEmacs already)? That way, distros could change the
> default as needed (according to their policy), without installing
> these files twice.