Dear Devs, I currently use stow[1] to build and install packages which aren't present in the (x)Ubuntu repositories. I build all my packages in /usr/local/stow/<package>-<revision>/ and stow symlinks all executables and libraries to /usr/local/<bin|lib|(etc)>/. Version control is a breeze this way and I can switch versions/revisions within seconds! Here's my problem: Geanyprj always looks for the real location of geany's libdir. The --prefix= and --libdir= configure flags are completely ignored by the configure script. This behaviour will cause geanyprj to be installed in a specific version of geany and when updating geany, the plugin gets 'lost' in the previous version's lib dir. My request: --libdir= should not be overridden by the configure script and geanyprj (and maybe other plugins?) should install themselves into ${libdir}/geany Is this a correct observation, or is this autotools noob completely wrong in this pursuit? ;) Happy holidays and may 2009 be as great for Geany as 2008 has been ;) Harold. [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/