Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/mk
To: Roland Illig <rillig@netbsd.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 10/31/2005 08:56:21
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Roland Illig wrote:

> Log Message:
> Added two new variables, GNU_CONFIGURE_INFODIR and GNU_CONFIGURE_MANDIR.
> Up to now, a package that wanted to use a different location for
> --mandir had to first define CONFIGURE_HAS_MANDIR=no and then
> CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--mandir=${...}, which looks weird. Now it only has to
> set GNU_CONFIGURE_MANDIR.

How many packages need this? (I didn't count.)

It seems like if a GNU_CONFIGURE (uses autoconf) package use --mandir in 
its own way, then it is broken. Maybe we should just fix the few packages 
to correctly use --mandir.

  Jeremy C. Reed

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