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AutotoolsToolchain could use "res" as datadir instead of "share", to align with ConanCenter

See original GitHub issue

Following conan-io/conan-center-index#9091 (comment), it could be that changing the default toolchain datadir to “res” instead of “share” would be more aligned with ConanCenter requested layouts, lets check it.

_Originally posted by @memsharded in https://github.com/conan-io/conan/issues/8476#issuecomment-1022130033_

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Created 2 years ago
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ericLemanissiercommented, Jan 26, 2022

My personal take on this is that using share folder would allow to simplify a lot of recipes which have to manually move some resources to the res folder, which is non-standard.

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memshardedcommented, Mar 2, 2022

New Autotools now use the defined cpp_info.resdirs as the default for autotools based install, implemented in https://github.com/conan-io/conan/pull/10672, will be in next 1.46