Fwd: Re: The mtree and man pages

[Anders F Björklund]

Stupid, stupid, stupid Reply rules on this list...

Forwarded message: (from me)

> Boey Maun Suang wrote:
>
>> In addition, it's not much trouble at all to make a port install man 
>> pages into ${prefix}/share/man; in most cases, we either pass 
>> --mandir=${prefix}/share/man to configure or copy it ourselves.  (I 
>> suspect that most of the ports that install man pages into 
>> ${prefix}/man are using configure script generated by autoconf < 
>> 2.59c, as it was only at that revision that it changed its default 
>> mandir to ${prefix}/share/man.)  Consequently, I think we should 
>> stick with installing man pages into ${prefix}/share/man.
>
> Seems very redundant to have that --mandir in each and every little 
> Portfile. Might as well have the definition next to the default 
> --prefix=${prefix}, so that it would automatically add 
> --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --infodir=${prefix}/share/info ? Since 
> that is now the mandatory location, might as well make it the default 
> configure arguments as well...
>
> Some ports that install into ${prefix}/man either use their own build 
> system or plain have it hardcoded in their Makefiles. For example, 
> MacPorts have hardcoded the location of ${prefix}/share/man in 
> doc/Makefile, no matter what ${mandir} is ? The main reason why it 
> didn't used to be such a big fuzz, was because of the ${prefix}/man -> 
> share/man symlink.
>
> --anders