Quoth winfried szukalski in private email:
> Referring to your 'configure' line:
> >configure --enable-pop --enable-buffy-size
> >--with-sharedir="/cs/share/mutt" --with-included-gettext
> >--prefix="./subdir"
>
> You can see: you did not set '--with-docdir=MY_DOCDIR'. So 'configure'
> used by default '--with-docdir=/usr/local/doc'.
Hmm. So what exactly is the difference between the --with-*dir options
and the --*dir options to configure? From configure --help:
>Directory and file names:
> [...]
> --bindir=DIR user executables in DIR [EPREFIX/bin]
> --sbindir=DIR system admin executables in DIR [EPREFIX/sbin]
> --libexecdir=DIR program executables in DIR [EPREFIX/libexec]
> --datadir=DIR read-only architecture-independent data in DIR
> [PREFIX/share]
> --sysconfdir=DIR read-only single-machine data in DIR [PREFIX/etc]
> --sharedstatedir=DIR modifiable architecture-independent data in DIR
> [PREFIX/com]
> --localstatedir=DIR modifiable single-machine data in DIR [PREFIX/var]
> --libdir=DIR object code libraries in DIR [EPREFIX/lib]
> --includedir=DIR C header files in DIR [PREFIX/include]
> --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]
> --srcdir=DIR find the sources in DIR [configure dir or ..]
>[...]
>--enable and --with options recognized:
> [...]
> --with-libdir=PATH specify where to put arch dependent files
> --with-sharedir=PATH specify where to put arch independent files
> --with-docdir=PATH specify where to put the documentation
When would one use, e.g. --with-sharedir as opposed to --datadir and
--sharedstatedir ? Why are there two different types of configure
options for this sort of thing?
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