Re: FHS

[Richard B. Kreckel]

On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > When upgrading some packages to AutoConf-2.52 I noticed that given
> > --prefix=/usr, manpages go straight into /usr/man/.  Hmm, but we got a
> > filesystem hierarchy standard <http://www.pathname.com/fhs/>!
> 
> But we've also got the GNU Coding Standards 
> <http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html>.

Okay, but I am unable to spot the contradiction with FHS.  For instance,
it says:

`mandir' 
      The top-level directory for installing the man pages (if any) for
      this package. It will normally be `/usr/local/man', but you should
      write it as `$(prefix)/man'. (If you are using Autoconf, write it as
      address@hidden@'.) 

There, $(prefix)/man would be problematic, but if the Autoconf-generated
configure would replace Makefile.in's @mandir@ with something appropiate
everybody would be merry.  Wrong?

Cheers
   -richy.
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