Tim,
Do you have any idea why the Xfractint Makefile uses SRCDIR for the install directory? It would seem to me to make more sense to use something like INSTALLDIR.
Probably just for convenience to build in the place where the source is, a developer convenience. I have no problem changing it. I wish I knew better Linux conventions.
Take a look at the following as a starting point: http://www.faqs.org/docs/gazette/paths.html and then http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/index.html#TOC It looks like I should/could change SRCDIR=/usr/share/xfractint to INSTALLDIR=/var/opt/xfractint I will need to see if I can get the tar to unpack to /opt/xfractint. But, then where does the binary (and man page) go? I'll have to ponder that one. Jonathan