On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 01:59:21PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 12:25:52PM +0000, Edward Avis wrote:
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> > On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > 
> > >    If for some wacky reason you've got things configured to be
> > >    outside your prefix (/var/man/man3, for example) it will fallback
> > >    to a hardcoded structure of our choosing.  Currently I'm likely
> > >    to use:
> > >
> > >        $(PREFIX)/lib/perl5/
> > >        $(PREFIX)/bin/
> > >        $(PREFIX)/man/
> > 
> > Possibly $(PREFIX)/share/man would be better to make sure that
> > PREFIX=/usr is FHS-compliant.  OTOH this would mean that
> > PREFIX=/opt/whatever would not be FHS-compliant, since that standard
> > specifies /usr/share/man/ but /opt/packagename/man/.
> 
> I don't think its MakeMaker's job to enforce Linux FHS standards.
> Especially if you're not running Linux! :)

Strongly agreed.

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