On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:08:44AM -0500, J. Lewis Muir wrote: > I'm hearing that LOCALBASE is the right variable to use at build-time if > constructing "-I" or "-L" arguments to the compiler, or, more generally, > when referring to the prefix of other packages. No, always use PREFIX. LOCALBASE is for the user to set. Joerg