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

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:26:45PM +1100, Hamish Greig wrote:
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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

Yeah, info files should also go to /usr/share/info instead of /usr/info,
i'll write a patch to sorcery to use those in default_build.

> 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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