Hi,
Gioele Barabucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Why don't you set mandir and infodir to PREFIX/share/{man,info}
> instead of PREFIX/{man,info}?
It just happens that './configure --prefix=/usr' generates an install
that almost satisfies the FHS. There are a number of differences,
though and I don't think we can or should mandate that './configure
--prefix=/usr' should conform to the FHS.
* FHS requires the use of /etc, GNU configure would use /usr/etc
* According to FHS /usr/include is architecture dependent. GNU
configure treats PREFIX/include as architecture independent (it is
in PREFIX, after all)
* GNU configure supports only one 'bindir' and only one 'libdir'.
You can usually use the following command to generate something more
FHS compliant
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--infodir=/usr/share/info \
--mandir=/usr/share/man
However this is not always right. FHS may require some of the
binaries be installed in /bin and /lib rather than /usr/bin and
/usr/lib, etc.
All in all, it is better not to use 'configure'/'make install' to
manage your system binaries but use some kind of packaging system.
- Hari
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