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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 05:28:11PM +1100, Hamish Greig wrote:
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> On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 22:19, shivaken wrote:
> > HI,
> >
> > There are two man directories on my smgl system
> > /usr/man and /usr/share/man.
> > Some spells uses "--mandir=/usr/share/man" and
> > some uses "--mandir=/usr/man".
> > I think using unified mandir is proper.
> >
> > And, most spells uses defalut sysconfdir.
> > So, some uses /etc/$SPELL and some uses /etc.
> > But at many case, /etc/$SPELL is good.
> >
> > Why don't you set these directory policy?
> 
> some packages don't honour --mandir so what we now do is make /usr/man a 
> symlink to /usr/share/man which saves us having to manually hack configure 
> or 
> makefiles on a per spell basis. WE do the same for /usr/doc 
> and /usr/share/doc also.
 
It's not a symlink on my system. About the --mandir switch, sorcery
doesn't use this switch, i just changed mjpegtools to use it and it
works fine, maybe it should be added to default_build.

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