>>>>> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:17:07 +0100, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Kern> On Thursday 12 January 2006 18:37, Dimitri Puzin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> when configuring bacula sources like
>> $ ./configure --prefix=/path/to/bacula/binaries ...
>> then I'd expect the man directory to be set to ${prefix}/man, however it
>> defaults to /usr/share/man. Is that wanted behavior?
Kern> Yes, that is the desired behavior -- by definition because that is what
it
Kern> does. The problem is that the "standards" are "all over the place",
Kern> and ./configure is *very* hard to work with concerning things such as
Kern> --prefix, so Bacula prints a nice summary of where it will put
everything,
Kern> and provides ./configure options for modifying all the paths ...
BTW, the configure --help implies that --mandir defaults to [PREFIX/man].
I've never seen a package where --prefix allows thing to escape...except when
it is a bug :-)
If the "share" is the problem, then how about defaulting to PREFIX/share/man?
__Martin
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