On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 12:38:47AM -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On Thu, 2022-03-10 at 16:41 +0000, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > I've fallen down a slight rabbit hole looking at the cygconf function in > > Cygport's autotools.cygclass. The specific bit of code that's causing > > me consternation is thus: > > > > case "x${confver}" in > > x2.6[0-9]*) > > confargs+=" --docdir=/usr/share/doc/${PN} > > --htmldir=/usr/share/doc/${PN}/html" > > ;; > > *) > > confargs+=" --infodir=${prefix}/share/info > > --mandir=${prefix}/share/man" > > ;; > > esac > > > > Firstly, I think the glob is incorrect: it looks like it was intended to > > match files that came from Autoconf versions 2.60 and up -- 2.60 is when > > Autoconf added the docdir and htmldir arguments -- but it has stopped > > working as expected: Autoconf released 2.70 in December 2020, and is now > > up to 2.71. The above code won't match those versions. > > Yes, this likely needs to be updated for 2.70+.
Grand, I'll see if I can offer a patch shortly :) > > Secondly -- and I'm not sure if this is intended or not -- I don't > > understand why --infodir and --mandir are only defined for versions > > prior to 2.60 (and, apparently unintentionally, 2.70 onwards). Those > > are valid both before and after 2.60. My best guess is that the intent > > was for the first option to fall through to the second, so for 2.60+ all > > four options would be defined, but that would have required `;&` or > > `;;&` rather than `;;`. > > No. 2.60 included changes for these (and other) directory values: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autotools-announce/2006-06/msg00002.html > > docdir and htmldir were added in 2.60, hence we don't want to pass them when > <=2.59 is detected. infodir and mandir were changed in 2.60, from > $prefix/{info,man} (which cygport needed to override for FHS compliance) to > $datarootdir/{info,man}, where the new datarootdir is $prefix/share, meaning > they no longer needed to be overriden by cygport. Ah! Yes, that makes sense. Thank you for the explanation! Adam