diff -ru fontforge-20040808.orig/fontforge/uiutil.c fontforge-20040808/fontforge/uiutil.c
--- fontforge-20040808.orig/fontforge/uiutil.c	2004-08-02 05:30:07.000000000 +0200
+++ fontforge-20040808/fontforge/uiutil.c	2004-08-18 15:00:47.125256325 +0200
@@ -307,6 +307,7 @@
 	fullspec[0] = 0;
 	if ( *file!='/' ) {
 	    if ( helpdir==NULL || *helpdir=='\0' ) {
+#define DOCDIR "/usr/share/doc/packages/fontforge/docs"
 #ifdef DOCDIR
 		strcpy(fullspec,DOCDIR "/");
 #elif defined(SHAREDIR)