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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