diff -Naur xotcl-1.2.1-orig+distclean/Makefile.in xotcl-1.2.1/Makefile.in
--- xotcl-1.2.1-orig+distclean/Makefile.in	Sun Jun 13 13:24:25 2004
+++ xotcl-1.2.1/Makefile.in	Mon Jun 14 06:20:05 2004
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@
 SHARED_BUILD	= @SHARED_BUILD@
 
 INCLUDES	= @PKG_INCLUDES@ @TCL_INCLUDES@
+XOTCL_LIB_PATH  = @XOTCL_LIB_PATH@
 EXTRA_CFLAGS	= @EXTRA_CFLAGS@ @PKG_CFLAGS@
 
 # TCL_DEFS is not strictly need here, but if you remove it, then you
@@ -481,15 +482,15 @@
 	@mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(pkglibdir)
 	@list='$(lib_BINARIES)'; for p in $$list; do \
 	  if test -f $$p; then \
-	    echo " $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) $$p $(DESTDIR)$(pkglibdir)/$$p"; \
-	    $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) $$p $(DESTDIR)$(pkglibdir)/$$p; \
+	    echo " $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) $$p $(DESTDIR)$(XOTCL_LIB_PATH)/$$p"; \
+	    $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) $$p $(DESTDIR)$(XOTCL_LIB_PATH)/$$p; \
 	    stub=`echo $$p|sed -e "s/.*\(stub\).*/\1/"`; \
 	    if test "x$$stub" = "xstub"; then \
-		echo " $(RANLIB_STUB) $(DESTDIR)$(pkglibdir)/$$p"; \
-		$(RANLIB_STUB) $(DESTDIR)$(pkglibdir)/$$p; \
+		echo " $(RANLIB_STUB) $(DESTDIR)$(XOTCL_LIB_PATH)/$$p"; \
+		$(RANLIB_STUB) $(DESTDIR)$(XOTCL_LIB_PATH)/$$p; \
 	    else \
-		echo " $(RANLIB) $(DESTDIR)$(pkglibdir)/$$p"; \
-		$(RANLIB) $(DESTDIR)$(pkglibdir)/$$p; \
+		echo " $(RANLIB) $(DESTDIR)$(XOTCL_LIB_PATH)/$$p"; \
+		$(RANLIB) $(DESTDIR)$(XOTCL_LIB_PATH)/$$p; \
 	    fi; \
 	    ext=`echo $$p|sed -e "s/.*\.//"`; \
 	    if test "x$$ext" = "xdll"; then \
diff -Naur xotcl-1.2.1-orig+distclean/configure.in xotcl-1.2.1/configure.in
--- xotcl-1.2.1-orig+distclean/configure.in	Sun Jun 13 13:52:53 2004
+++ xotcl-1.2.1/configure.in	Mon Jun 14 06:13:25 2004
@@ -326,8 +326,15 @@
 #
 # XOTcl specific configs
 #
+
+#
+# XOTCL_LIB_PATH can be set to the dir you want the libs to be installed
+# in. The default value is a reasonable default. The 'make install'
+# target should use its value as the place to install the libs.
+#
+XOTCL_LIB_PATH="${exec_prefix}/lib"
 XOTCL_BUILD_LIB_SPEC="-L`pwd` -lxotcl${PACKAGE_VERSION}"
-XOTCL_LIB_SPEC="-L${exec_prefix}/lib -lxotcl${PACKAGE_VERSION}"
+XOTCL_LIB_SPEC="-L${XOTCL_LIB_PATH} -lxotcl${PACKAGE_VERSION}"
 
 # stub libs are not build for 8.0
 if test "${TCL_MAJOR_VERSION}" = "8" -a "${TCL_MINOR_VERSION}" = "0"; then
@@ -337,14 +344,15 @@
 	XOTCL_STUB_LIB_PATH=""
 else
 	XOTCL_BUILD_STUB_LIB_SPEC="-L`pwd` -lxotclstub${PACKAGE_VERSION}"
-	XOTCL_STUB_LIB_SPEC="-L${exec_prefix}/lib -lxotclstub${PACKAGE_VERSION}"
+	XOTCL_STUB_LIB_SPEC="-L${XOTCL_LIB_PATH} -lxotclstub${PACKAGE_VERSION}"
 	XOTCL_BUILD_STUB_LIB_PATH="`pwd`/${PKG_STUB_LIB_FILE}"
-	XOTCL_STUB_LIB_PATH="${exec_prefix}/lib/${PKG_STUB_LIB_FILE}"
+	XOTCL_STUB_LIB_PATH="${XOTCL_LIB_PATH}/${PKG_STUB_LIB_FILE}"
 	AC_DEFINE(COMPILE_XOTCL_STUBS)
 fi 
 
 AC_SUBST(SHARED_LIB_SUFFIX)
 AC_SUBST(UNSHARED_LIB_SUFFIX)
+AC_SUBST(XOTCL_LIB_PATH)
 AC_SUBST(XOTCL_BUILD_LIB_SPEC)
 AC_SUBST(XOTCL_LIB_SPEC)
 AC_SUBST(XOTCL_BUILD_STUB_LIB_SPEC)