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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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ISO's since 0.7 (i think) have had it symlinked.
I never looked to see if sorcery used --mandir, guess I expected it did and 
it 
was one of those configure/Makefile issues.
- --infodir would be a nice addition also I think.
Hamish

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 23:10, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> 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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