The mtree and man pages
Ryan Schmidt
ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Aug 14 00:51:20 PDT 2007
On Aug 14, 2007, at 02:48, Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> And why is it now a big deal to track these mtree violations? I
>> still have said symlink.
>
> I don't know either, earlier changes were delayed due to
> DarwinPorts->MacPorts,
> and now they are being delayed due to man->share/man. Both petty,
> in my book :-P
What is being delayed?
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