clarified --prefix et al

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<ulink url="mailto:jean-francois.dockes@wanadoo.fr">I would
very much welcome patches</ulink>.</para>
<para>Depending on the <application>qt</application>
<para>Depending on the <application>Qt&nbsp;3</application>
configuration on your system, you may have to set the
<literal>QTDIR</literal> and <literal>QMAKESPECS</literal>
variables in your environment:</para>
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<para>On many Linux systems, <literal>QTDIR</literal> is set
by the login scripts, and <literal>QMAKESPECS</literal> is not
needed because there is a <filename>default</filename> link in
<filename>mkspecs/</filename>. Neither should be needed with
Qt&nbsp;4.</para>
<filename>mkspecs/</filename>.
<para>Neither <literal>QTDIR</literal> nor
<literal>QMAKESPECS</literal> should be needed with
Qt&nbsp;4, configuration details are entirely determined by
<command>qmake</command> (which is quite often installed as
<command>qmake-qt4</command>).</para>
<formalpara><title>Configure options:</title>
<para>
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interface, and auxiliary uses of X11, and compile the command
line version.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Of course the usual
<application>autoconf</application> <command>configure</command>
options, like <literal>--prefix</literal> apply.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</formalpara>
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data to
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/share/recoll</filename>.</para>
<para>If the installation prefix given to
<command>recollinstall</command> is different from what was
specified when executing <command>configure</command>, you
<command>recollinstall</command> is different from either the
system default or the value which was
specified when executing <command>configure</command> (as in
<userinput>configure --prefix /some/path</userinput>), you
will have to set the <literal>RECOLL_DATADIR</literal>
environment variable to indicate where the shared data is to
be found.</para>
be found (ie for (ba)sh:
<userinput>export RECOLL_DATADIR=/some/path/share/recoll</userinput>).
</para>
<para>You can then proceed to <link
linkend="rcl.install.config">configuration</link>. </para>
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</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Section definitions allow redefining some parameters for
a directory sub-tree. They stay in effect until another
section definition, or the end of file, is encountered. Some
of the parameters used for indexing are looked up
hierarchically from the current directory location
upwards. Not all parameters can be meaningfully redefined,
this is specified for each in the next section. </para>
<para>Depending on the type of configuration file, section
definitions either separate groups of parameters or allow
redefining some parameters for a directory sub-tree. They stay
in effect until another section definition, or the end of
file, is encountered. Some of the parameters used for indexing
are looked up hierarchically from the current directory
location upwards. Not all parameters can be meaningfully
redefined, this is specified for each in the next
section. </para>
<para>When found at the beginning of a file path, the tilde
character (~) is expanded to the name of the user's home