I assume you had commented out only the line
'localedir="/usr/local/share/locale"' rather than 'lines'. Is it right?

Show me following result.
$ egrep '(datadir|prefix|localedir|LOCALEDIR)' config.log

Regardless of above result, I think that we should define LOCALEDIR globally in
configure process to unify the definition and to avoid errors. In fact, you had
already caused such error since you had forgotten the modification of
Makefile.am in sumika subdirectory.

We will cause such problem again if we adopt your way. It's a structural problem.

> I assume you had commented out only the line
> 'localedir="/usr/local/share/locale"' rather than 'lines'. Is it right?

No. To be exact, I modified as follows.

LOCALEDIR=`eval echo ${datadir}/locale`


$egrep '(datadir|prefix|localedir|LOCALEDIR)' config.log
Configured with: ../src/configure -v
--enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib
--enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit
--enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm
--enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc i486-linux
Configured with: ../src/configure -v
--enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib
--enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit
--enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm
--enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc i486-linux
| #define LOCALEDIR "NONE/share/locale"
| #define GNOMELOCALEDIR "NONE/share/locale"
| #define LOCALEDIR "NONE/share/locale"
| #define GNOMELOCALEDIR "NONE/share/locale"
| #define LOCALEDIR "NONE/share/locale"
| #define GNOMELOCALEDIR "NONE/share/locale"
| #define LOCALEDIR "NONE/share/locale"
| #define GNOMELOCALEDIR "NONE/share/locale"
bindir='${exec_prefix}/bin'
datadir='${prefix}/share'
exec_prefix='${prefix}'
includedir='${prefix}/include'
infodir='${prefix}/info'
libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib'
libexecdir='${exec_prefix}/libexec'
localedir='/usr/local/share/locale'
localstatedir='${prefix}/var'
mandir='${prefix}/man'
prefix='/usr/local'
sbindir='${exec_prefix}/sbin'
sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com'
sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc'
#define GNOMELOCALEDIR "NONE/share/locale"
#define LOCALEDIR "NONE/share/locale"

As an additional infomation, tested with this line:

LOCALEDIR="${datadir}/locale"

Result:

#define GNOMELOCALEDIR "${prefix}/share/locale"
#define LOCALEDIR "${prefix}/share/locale

More additional infomation:

Quoted from the automake's ML:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/automake/2000-07/msg00037.html

  AC_DEFUN([AC_EXPAND_DIR], 
  [$1=$2
  $1=`( test "x$prefix" = xNONE && prefix="$ac_default_prefix"
        test "x$exec_prefix" = xNONE && exec_prefix="${prefix}"
        eval echo \""[$]$1"\"
      )`
  ])

Though I couldn't understand what is doing with this macro...

Fixed in r156 of new repository. I'm sorry Hiroyuki, I was misunderstood about
the case $prefix == NONE. It simply refrects configure options, but I
misunderstood as contains default value.

Now I've rewritten the LOCALEDIR definition as default-value ready.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
r156 | yamaken | 2005-01-07 22:23:13 +0900 (Fri, 07 Jan 2005) | 14 lines

* configure.ac
  - Fix LOCALEDIR and GNOMELOCALEDIR definition. This has resolved bug
    #1820
  - Define LIBDIR and DATADIR