> I tried to let groff create a data directory for the `refer'
> databases.  I changed aclocal.m4, Makefile.in, and configure.ac.

*Never* change `aclocal.m4' manually!  This is a generated file.  The
source files for `aclocal.m4' are in the `m4' directory (well, not all
of them, but the ones specific to groff).

> Unfortunately, the `refer' data directory is not created by `make
> install'.  I did such creations already several times, but I lost
> the knowledge how that worked.

You have to add a macro in `m4/groff.m4' to do that,
cf. `GROFF_GROGDIR_DEFAULT'.


    Werner

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