I would also lean towards trimming the whole default search path down, but didn't want to go that far with an unsolicited patch. I'd probably vote to include just ~/lib/jhc:/usr/local/lib/jhc:/usr/lib/jhc:$PREFIX/lib/jhc:$PREFIX/lib/jhc-0.7 and move the default install into the last entry. Otherwise, it seems like you're asking for folks to get confused as to what packages are actually used. With my change, 16 locations are searched, which seems excessive, particularly as users can always add their own paths via an environment variable. David Wed Sep 2 12:28:53 EDT 2009 David Roundy * include $PREFIX/{share,lib}/{jhc,jhc-$SHORTVERSION} in search path. I find it a little annoying that the default search path doesn't include the location where I installed jhc, except the ../share/jhc-0.7 directory, which I'd rather not put stuff in, so I can easily delete all non-standard packages. I also took the liberty of reordering the default search path, so that all the ~/* entries would be before all the /usr/local/* entries, etc.