Il 10/10/2013 14:34, Fam Zheng ha scritto: > Hmm, basically an analogue to bindir and libdir. > > I'm not sure why wasn't that libdir/bindir always be ${prefix}/lib and > ${prefix}/bin as well. So why are they needed? > > AFAICT it is not a problem to drop it, if you insist.
libdir can be ${prefix}/lib64, bindir could also be ${prefix}/libexec for example. Also, libdir and bindir are two of the standard arguments to configure (rooting back to the GNU coding standards). Paolo