I'd like to override the default value of localstatedir (in a distribution). That is, unless specifically defined with configure --localstatedir, I'd like the value to be /var/packagename.
AFAICT, autoconf does not offer a way to do this. I can override the value after AC_INIT(), but <prefix>/var still appears in the --help output and there is no easy way to determine if it had been specified on the command-line. Am I missing some knob to acheive this?
