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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/.

Probably as long as you first check both $(PREFIX)/share/man and
$(PREFIX)/man and use one of those if it exists, I don't think the
choice of share/man vs just man for the default matters much.

>This at least ensures that if you say PREFIX you're *guaranteed* that
>everything will wind up under that prefix.

Unless someone has snuck a few '..'s into some other variables :-).

- -- 
Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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