Index: build/premake/premake.lua
===================================================================
--- build/premake/premake.lua	(revision 7757)
+++ build/premake/premake.lua	(revision 7758)
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 addoption("outpath", "Location for generated project files")
 addoption("without-tests", "Disable generation of test projects")
 addoption("without-pch", "Disable generation and usage of precompiled headers")
+addoption("bindir", "Directory for executables (typically '/usr/games/bin'); default is to be relocatable")
+addoption("datadir", "Directory for data files (typically '/usr/share/games/0ad'); default is ../data/ relative to executable")
+addoption("libdir", "Directory for libraries (typically '/usr/games/lib'); default is ./ relative to executable")
 
 dofile("functions.lua")
 dofile("extern_libs.lua")
@@ -206,13 +209,6 @@
 			end
 		end
 
-		if OS == "linux" then
-			-- To use our local SpiderMonkey library, it needs to be part of the runtime dynamic linker
-			-- path. So add the executable path with -rpath:
-			-- (TODO: is this a sane way to do it?)
-			tinsert(package.linkoptions, {"-Wl,-rpath='$$ORIGIN'"}) -- use Makefile escaping of '$'
-		end
-
 		tinsert(package.buildoptions, {
 			-- Hide symbols in dynamic shared objects by default, for efficiency and for equivalence with
 			-- Windows - they should be exported explicitly with __attribute__ ((visibility ("default")))
@@ -233,10 +229,28 @@
 		if OS == "linux" and options["icc"] then
 			tinsert(package.libpaths, "/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib") -- needed for ICC to find libbfd
 		end
-		
-		package.defines = {
-			-- "CONFIG_USE_MMGR",
-		}
+
+		if options["bindir"] then
+			tinsert(package.defines, "INSTALLED_BINDIR=" .. options["bindir"])
+		end
+		if options["datadir"] then
+			tinsert(package.defines, "INSTALLED_DATADIR=" .. options["datadir"])
+		end
+		if options["libdir"] then
+			tinsert(package.defines, "INSTALLED_LIBDIR=" .. options["libdir"])
+		end
+
+		if OS == "linux" then
+			-- To use our local SpiderMonkey library, it needs to be part of the
+			-- runtime dynamic linker path. Add it with -rpath to make sure it gets found.
+			if options["libdir"] then
+				tinsert(package.linkoptions, {"-Wl,-rpath=" .. options["libdir"]})
+			else
+				-- Add the executable path:
+				tinsert(package.linkoptions, {"-Wl,-rpath='$$ORIGIN'"}) -- use Makefile escaping of '$'
+			end
+		end
+
 	end
 end
 
Index: source/ps/GameSetup/Paths.cpp
===================================================================
--- source/ps/GameSetup/Paths.cpp	(revision 7757)
+++ source/ps/GameSetup/Paths.cpp	(revision 7758)
@@ -30,7 +30,13 @@
 Paths::Paths(const CmdLineArgs& args)
 {
 	m_root = Root(wstring_from_utf8(args.GetArg0()));
+
+#ifdef INSTALLED_DATADIR
+	m_rdata = WIDEN(STRINGIZE(INSTALLED_DATADIR)) L"/";
+#else
 	m_rdata = m_root/L"data/";
+#endif
+
 	const wchar_t* subdirectoryName = args.Has("writableRoot")? 0 : L"0ad";
 
 	// everything is a subdirectory of the root
Index: source/ps/DllLoader.cpp
===================================================================
--- source/ps/DllLoader.cpp	(revision 7757)
+++ source/ps/DllLoader.cpp	(revision 7758)
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 
 #include "DllLoader.h"
 
+#include "lib/timer.h"
 #include "lib/posix/posix_dlfcn.h"
 #include "ps/CStr.h"
 #include "ps/CLogger.h"
@@ -30,10 +31,15 @@
 // the library name.
 
 // note: on Linux, lib is prepended to the SO file name;
-// we don't use a path with '/' so the linker will look in DT_RUNPATH
+// if we don't have an explicit libdir then we don't use
+// a path with '/' so the linker will look in DT_RUNPATH
 // (which we set to $ORIGIN) to find it in the executable's directory
 #if OS_UNIX
-static const char* prefix = "lib";
+ #ifdef INSTALLED_LIBDIR
+  static const char* prefix = STRINGIZE(INSTALLED_LIBDIR) "/lib";
+ #else
+  static const char* prefix = "lib";
+ #endif
 #else
 static const char* prefix = "";
 #endif
@@ -72,6 +78,8 @@
 	// postcondition: m_Handle valid or == HANDLE_UNAVAILABLE.
 	if (m_Handle == 0)
 	{
+		TIMER(L"LoadDLL");
+
 		CStr filename = CStr(prefix) + m_Name + suffix;
 
 		// we don't really care when relocations take place, but one of