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On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 01:14, Pavel Jan=C3=ADk wrote:

> should the default be ${prefix}/var/games/emacs?

Actually what I wrote there was wrong; the default is really
${localstatedir}/games/emacs.  Fixed.

> Ie. /usr/local/var/games/emacs in the default case?=20

This will end up being the default case, yes.  Do you have a suggestion
for something better?

I just changed my build
> script and added --with-game-dir=3D/var/games/emacs, because I use prefix
> /usr and do not want it to be in /usr/var/games/emacs.

You could also use --localstatedir=3D/var.  This is what the Debian
packages will do, for sure.