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Subject: Re: Need to modify src/epaths.in for custom prefix? (Was: Cleaner way
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> From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:00:11 -0500
> 
> As I was reviewing my emacs build script, I realized I needed to address this another nugget I have in there
> for a while:
> 
> sed -i 's|/usr/local|${MY_EMACS_INSTALL_DIR}|g' src/epaths.in
> 
> Here ${MY_EMACS_INSTALL_DIR} is the path I set as prefix to the configure command.

What's wrong with using --datadir= and --enable-locallisppath= ?
(Maybe also --libexecdir and others.)

IOW, I think the configure script already has all the knobs you need
for that.