Subject: Re: using PKGMANDIR?
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Georg Schwarz <georg.schwarz@freenet.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/11/2005 00:13:02
> Most autoconf configure scripts use --mandir which defines @mandir@ for
> Makefile.in (created via automake).
>
> pkgsrc sets CONFIGURE_ARGS for --mandir when using GNU_CONFIGURE.
>
> Note this is not a new idea. Pkgsrc has already supported this for "info"
> documentation. The main difference is that we specifically list the "info"
> files by name and they are auto registered to PLIST.
and there is no mechanism that does a quite intransparent string replacement
to PLIST.
I haven't gone through the code, but it should be determinable under which
circumstances pkgsrc rewrites man/ to ${PKGMANDIR}/ for PLIST.
Then these packages could have man/ changed into ${PKGMANDIR}/ in their
PLIST, we could get rid of the non-obvious replacement procedure, and things
would be simpler and more transparent. Am I missing some point?
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