Re: [Tinycc-devel] configure: --sharedir documentation root

[grischka]

Henry Kroll wrote:
> After more searching around existing software puts documentation in
> either or both places, and it looks like the following would be the most
> common configuration and the one I would prefer, so I made this the
> default:
>
> ./configure
> ...
> Manual directory    /usr/local/share/man
> Info directory      /usr/local/share/info
> Doc directory       /usr/local/share/doc/tcc
>
> They can still be overridden individually and clever windows users can
> set --sharedir= to the location of "My Documents"

They could set it but it would not have any effect. ;)

In any case, "--sharedir" is not an option that configure scripts
usually have.  Why does tinycc need it?

Also what is the deal with --tccdir?  Why do we need that?

> ./configure --help explains thusly:
>
>   --sharedir=DIR           documentation root DIR [PREFIX]/share
>   --docdir=DIR             documentation in DIR [SHAREDIR/doc/tcc]
>   --mandir=DIR             man documentation in DIR [SHAREDIR/man]
>   --infodir=DIR            info documentation in DIR [SHAREDIR/info]
>
> http://repo.or.cz/w/tinycc.git/commitdiff/48e325df3cad5cdadef6bb354bbc328d70c6ab32