Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] [PATCH] minor ethereal build system fixes

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 14:21:36 -0700
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 11:35:17AM +0100, Nix wrote:
> - prematurely expanding `PLUGIN_DIR' so that it doesn't move around
>   if the user resets `prefix' at installation time --- obviously you
>   need to expand it because it gets substituted into C code, so
>   I've introduced a `plugindir' make variable which contains the
>   unexpanded value.

If it's substituted into the C code, what happens if you reset "prefix"
at installation time?  Does the resulting Ethereal - which is presumably
looking for plugins in the directory specified at compile time - find
the plugins?