Hello Jim,
This is actually an Autoconf question. I don't think that's easy to
infer, though.
* Jim Lynch wrote on Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 07:13:41PM CET:
> [...] if I do a ./configure
> --sysconfdir=/etc I get what I want. However as I advance in age, I
> forget more than I used to so remembering to add that parameter
[...]
Remember it for all applications that use Autoconf:
echo sysconfdir=/etc >>/usr/local/share/config.site
or, if you can still be able to override it from the command line, use
this line:
test "$sysconfdir" = '${prefix}/etc' && sysconfdir=/etc
Here's more information:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Site-Defaults.html>
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Ralf