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3895	Use relative path for search path first to access files of mc	chros		"Hi!

I've written a small but powerful [https://github.com/chros73/build-mc build script] (along with tmux and tig build script), mostly for outdated systems (like Debian and Ubuntu distros), take a look, maybe you also like it. It can be used for development as well, just drop in patches and modify the version number.
Maybe I'll update the readme later with more info.

When [https://github.com/chros73/build-mc#compiling compiling] mc like [https://github.com/chros73/build-mc/blob/master/build.sh#L325 this], it will properly allocate all the files inside the given '--prefix=' directory, but:
- unfortunately it still uses absolute path to access majority of its files (e.g. help files, skins, etc), so you can't move the whole directory somewhere else: it will complain for missing files

Is it possible to change this to always use relative path for searching for files first?

Thanks

PS: I'd like to thank you guys for keeping this project alive! I'm an 'mc' user  for about 25 years now and I can't live without it. :)"	enhancement	closed	major		mc-core	master	wontfix					no branch