On Thursday 12 January 2006 21:49, Martin Simmons wrote:
> >>>>> 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?
I'm a bit burned out on ./configure so this is not something that I am going
to do in the near future, but don't have any problem if someone would provide
a patch to rationalize this a bit more, on several conditions:
1. The proposed changes are "more or less" agreed on by everyone.
2. There is some way the user can configure the manual to go anywhere
he wants. I will not for example accept a patch (as was already
submitted) where the manual will *always* go into
<some-user-supplied-path>/man1
3. I get a patch.
4. Either I get a patch for the doc, or someone sends me the new text (I
don't mind editing the manual to put in suggested new text).
If someone wants to take this on, please speak up, but I recommend that you
switch the thread to bacula-devel only.
--
Best regards,
Kern
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