The default locations for config files and back-end executables has
changed.
Config files have moved from ${sysconfdir} to ${sysconfdir}/nmh, and
the back-end programs from ${libdir} to ${libexecdir}/nmh.
The only user-visible change is the addition of a new mhparam(1)
component 'libexecdir', which replaces the previous 'libdir'. User
scripts invoking 'mhparam libdir' will need an update. 'libdir'
has been kept around for the time being, to give people a chance
to update their scripts. It returns the same value as 'libexecdir'.
'libdir' has been marked deprecated in the mhparam(1) manpage and
the release notes; it will be removed in a couple of releases.
In conjunction with this change there was an opportunity to do a
bit of Makefile cleanup. The old 'auxexec' construct has been
replaced with a new scheme that leverages automake's templating.
The auxexec_* references have been replaced with nmhlibexec_* forms,
and a corresponding nmhlibexecdir variable defined as ${libexecdir}/nmh.
Likewise, etcdir has been replaced with nmhetcdir.
These name changes have percolated downstream to some extent, primarily
in the man pages and test scripts.
Finally, configure has been made a bit smarter about setting the
default ${prefix}. If it finds an existing nmh installation, it
will set the default ${prefix} to match, falling back to /usr/local/nmh.
configure looks for an existing installation by searching $PATH for
a viable mhparam binary.
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