On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:31:48PM -0800, Tim Rice wrote: > I looks like man pages are being installed in the wrong place on > non default installs. Ie. --prefix=/usr --openssldir=/etc/ssl
It is intentional that we use the --openssldir value rather than the --prefix value in such cases. Files installed to --prefix are only those for which we can be reasonably sure that we don't have conflicts with unrelated software. This is not the case for our man pages (our foo.1 manpage documents 'openssl foo', not some program called 'foo', except that if you call the 'openssl' binary using a link called 'foo', it will automatically behave accordingly). A possible solution to this problem that has been considered was using OpenSSL-specific manpage sections (e.g. use man1openssl rather than man1). Open questions are how to name the section (how long can the section suffix be -- if portability dictates that we can use just a single letter, which letter is safe to use"?). Currently if you want to view OpenSSL manpages you should set MANPATH accordingly (or use an appropriate option to 'man') -- Bodo M�ller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/TI/Mitarbeiter/moeller/0x36d2c658.html * TU Darmstadt, Theoretische Informatik, Alexanderstr. 10, D-64283 Darmstadt * Tel. +49-6151-16-6628, Fax +49-6151-16-6036 ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
