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What exactly is the problem you are trying to describe? The default path uses --datarootdir, which against defaults to using --prefix, so if you do not specify --prefix and/or --datarootdir, the default path will be
/usr/local/share/fonts/opentype/unifont

The is the expected autoconf default behaviour.

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Since there are some default paths that are searched, that implies there is some intended effort to have the common case work out of the box. So I was just supplying the finding that this is the out of the box path on ubuntu.

Now that you say it's because of $PREFIX, I don't recall many other times where the destination prefix is more than the first default try for sources and dependencies, not the only try.

I haven't looked yet but I can't imagine that this is just the way autoconf works, since I feel like I must have noticed that sometime in the last 30 years. But you never know.

Would you mind a pr that adds searching /usr after searching prefix if they aren't the same?

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I'm always open for PRs

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I'm about to give up on figuring out how autotools expects one to handle a case like this "properly".

We want to be able to install to /usr/local, and then at run-time load something from /usr, and that thing does not happen to be an executable or a library, and so there is no provision for that, that I can see, other than what you're already doing which is supply a --with option.

I don't want to offer anything too hacky and there is a method to provide the path so that the program works fine at run-time, and this isn't exactly a critical piece of infrastructure utility software, so... guess I will shut up now! Maybe I'll submit a pr some time but might as well close this issue since I also might never and it's not really much of a problem anyway.

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Makes it easier to see what is going on atleast.

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