FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>]

On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 11:29:58 +0200
Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure however about --docdir. Should it point to main root
> (like /usr/share/doc) or specific to project?
> 
> I think you are referring to configure option, in configure I have
> 
> docdir='${datarootdir}/doc/${PACKAGE_TARNAME}'

Hi Freddy, 

I think the HTML install location was overengineered way back when.
ISTM it should be just

         docdir='${datarootdir}/doc/freetds'

for the same reason that the libraries are installed in PREFIX/lib:
Only one version is installed, and only one version of the
documentation need be installed.  

Nowadays autoconf supports htmldir, which seems more appropriate.  

Mea culpa.  I plead youthful exuberance and lack of elders to guide me. 

--jkl