On Monday 29 October 2001 01:56, you wrote:
> correct, ... and at the same time, inconvenient for the quick builds
> when carrying a tarball of my projects around. It should be then just
> configure/make/make-install even for win32-target where the files
> should go under /programs, and it for quite some unices a different
> scheme about /opt packs is virulent. I hacked up a macro for that, but
> as noted above, it's use it not recommend - it just happens to be there ;-)
>
> http://ac-archive.SF.net/guidod/ac_set_default_paths_system.html
>
> by the way, to be FHS compliant with a single prefix-system is a
> very hard task - manpages go to /usr/local/man but /usr/share/man
> when under /usr.
?? sure? /usr/local should be a replication of /usr IIRC, so
/usr/local/share/man is the correct directory
> The only thing I want to raise my voice again - please add a
> generic docprefix where all these docprefix/{man|info|help|html}
> files can be put under, nuke manpath/infodir in the distant
> future. pleeeeeease....
Why nuke it? you can just add your --docprefix and leave that options where
they are.
BTW html files goes under /usr/share/doc/APPNAME/html while man is in
/usr/share/man
