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Re: [Groff] wrong install path of man and info files
From: |
Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] wrong install path of man and info files |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Jun 2004 21:00:13 +0200 (CEST) |
> So far, the man pages are installed into ${prefix}/man. This copies
> the corresponding files to /usr/local/man or /usr/man. According to
> the FHS and common usage, this should be /usr/share/man or
> /usr/local/share/man. The same happens to the info file.
>
> To correct this, the `configure' file in the top source directory
> must be changed.
I'm *very* reluctant to do this. What do the autoconf people say? I
think Bernd is right, so I wonder why the defaults haven't changed in
autoconf. It deserves at least a note in the autoconf manual IMHO.
Werner