Richard Stallman writes:
> It seems best to do what Debian is doing, so I wrote this:
>
> @item htmldir
> The directory for installing the HTML files (if any) for this package.
> (HTML files should be generated from Texinfo sources.) By default, it
> should be @file{/usr/local/doc/@var{package}}, but it should be written
> as @file{$(prefix)/doc/@var{package}}.
This makes sense to me. But since distributions differ so widely in
the precise location of the documentation (/usr/doc vs. /usr/share/doc
vs. /usr/doc/packages) it'd be nice if that location were selectable
through a "configure" option --docdir.
Here is a patch that would implement this in autoconf-2.13.
*** autoconf-2.13/acgeneral.m4.bak Tue Jan 5 14:27:37 1999
--- autoconf-2.13/acgeneral.m4 Thu Aug 24 18:14:13 2000
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*** 204,209 ****
--- 204,210 ----
oldincludedir='/usr/include'
infodir='${prefix}/info'
mandir='${prefix}/man'
+ docdir='${prefix}/doc'
# Initialize some other variables.
subdirs=
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*** 268,273 ****
--- 269,279 ----
ac_feature=`echo $ac_feature| sed 's/-/_/g'`
eval "enable_${ac_feature}=no" ;;
+ -docdir | --docdir | --docdi | --docd | --doc | --do)
+ ac_prev=docdir ;;
+ -docdir=* | --docdir=* | --docdi=* | --docd=* | --doc=* | --do=*)
+ docdir="$ac_optarg" ;;
+
-enable-* | --enable-*)
ac_feature=`echo $ac_option|sed -e 's/-*enable-//' -e 's/=.*//'`
# Reject names that are not valid shell variable names.
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*** 328,333 ****
--- 334,340 ----
--oldincludedir=DIR C header files for non-gcc in DIR [/usr/include]
--infodir=DIR info documentation in DIR [PREFIX/info]
--mandir=DIR man documentation in DIR [PREFIX/man]
+ --docdir=DIR HTML documentation in DIR [PREFIX/doc]
--srcdir=DIR find the sources in DIR [configure dir or ..]
--program-prefix=PREFIX prepend PREFIX to installed program names
--program-suffix=SUFFIX append SUFFIX to installed program names
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*** 720,725 ****
--- 727,733 ----
AC_SUBST(oldincludedir)dnl
AC_SUBST(infodir)dnl
AC_SUBST(mandir)dnl
+ AC_SUBST(docdir)dnl
])
