Installing additional documentation files
Ryan Schmidt
ryandesign at macports.org
Sat Oct 17 09:49:25 PDT 2009
I added a portfile recipe for installing additional documentation files:
https://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes#doc
I recommended that documentation should go in ${prefix}/share/doc/$
{name}. This is where we always used to install additional
documentation files.
A year or two ago, Anthony started changing things to install those
files in ${prefix}/share/doc/${name}-${version} instead, but I didn't
really ever understand the reasoning. You can't ever have more than
one version of a port active at the same time, so it's not like $
{prefix}/share/doc/${name} can cause a conflict. Does anybody have an
objection to returning to the old recommendation?
If not, then I would also like to have MacPorts base auto-create $
{prefix}/share/doc/${name} before the destroot phase, so each port
doesn't have to "xinstall -d" it manually. MacPorts base already
creates ${prefix}/share/${name} automatically so I think this fits.
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