#2 Makefile should use standard-paths

[Anonymous]

If you want to compile xorg-edit on other distros, you've got a problem:
In the moment xorg-edit does install everything under

/usr/local/lib/xorgedit/*

No matter if we have to do with the executable binary
No matter if we have a language file
no matter if we have config files

Please make use of the common standard-variables for installation directories in your Makefile.

It would be much easier then to compile a distro-specific package of xorg-edit.

I.e. my distro uses these variables for "make install":

prefix=/usr \ exec_prefix=/usr \ bindir=/usr/bin \ sbindir=/usr/sbin \ sysconfdir=/etc \ datadir=/usr/share \ includedir=/usr/include \ libdir=/usr/lib \ libexecdir=/usr/lib \ localstatedir=/var/lib \ sharedstatedir=/usr/com \ mandir=/usr/share/man \ infodir=/usr/share/info

Btw. - with present Makefile "make install" will copy all files "de_DE", instead of just copying the only necesarry file "xorg-edit.mo"

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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To be more clearly:

Don't use:
INSTALLPATH = /usr/local

but something like:
datadir = /usr/share
bindir = /usr/bin

as i.e. RPM-macros are able to overwrite the variables with distro-specific values!

Executing a binary file located in "/usr/local/lib/*" isn't very smart, as it can not be found through the standard-paths defined in a common distro.