On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 02:55:59AM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 04:16:10AM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > > Just gotta get the #&*(@#& Muttrc installing, which is giving me > > fits, and the > > > new mutt is set. Muttrc is where the incorrect > > "/usr/local/whatever/manual.txt" > > > is coming from. If we could ignore that problem I'm ready to go now AFAIK. > > > > I don't quite understand that problem, actually. > > Yep, that's where I am too. ;-) > > > mutt has a Muttrc.head.in > > file which defines the path as > > > > macro generic <f1> "!less @docdir@/manual.txt\n" "Show Mutt documentation" > > macro index <f1> "!less @docdir@/manual.txt\n" "Show Mutt documentation" > > macro pager <f1> "!less @docdir@/manual.txt\n" "Show Mutt documentation" > > > > from which Muttrc.head and in turn Muttrc is generated. Looking into > > the Makefile it seems to me, that you just have to define > > > > --docdir=/usr/share/doc/mutt > > > > on the configure command line. Did you try that? > > > > Well, --with-docdir, and yes, it does change Muttrc.head and the built Muttrc. > But when it comes time to install, it picks the prebuilt one from the original > source instead, which is the 'usr/local/' one. Hmm, I suppose I could just try > renaming that one....
Erm... this seems to be a bug in Makefile.am. Look into the install-data-local rule. It installs from $(srcdir) without looking for a Muttrc file in $(top_builddir) first. Adding one `if' to that rule should make the Makefile builddir != srddir aware. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc.