Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Haven't thought of one yet. But whatever the fix entails it will
> have to close the fd to foo before the mv/rm.
In that case, Win-32 is not Posix compliant, and it should not be a
significant priority of the GNU Project to support it.
Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sorry, sent too soon. Also, GNU's Not Unix, and the intent of autoconf is
> software portability.
Indeed, and I don't mind people putting patches in to deal. But my
tests don't worry about it, and I don't want GNU maintainers to think
they have an obli
"Richard B. Kreckel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now four years into FHS-2.0, can we consider this a bug? Or is FHS buggy?
FHS is buggy, but (as the primary engine behind the makefile standards
in this area) I think it's time to give in, and move mandir and
infodir into the share hierarchy.
Guido Draheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Didn't we had a lengthy talk about it lately?
So since I'm the main directories for the GNU Coding Standards, I've
sent a note to RMS requesting that he alter the coding standards to
change the placement of infodir and mandir to put them under datadir
Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Except that datadir is for read-only architecture-independent data, and man
> pages are not architecture-independent. Granted, it is possible to
> reorganize the subdirs into arch-specific subdirs, but that is not presently
> the case. Also, different
Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There is more to software than GNU.
Sure, but the GNU Coding Standards are for GNU, by definition. There
are many things that are disallowed by them in the interests of making
GNU better. For example, info files must all be machine independent.
There
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Personally, I'm somewhat annoyed to see yet more paths going into Autoconf
> that I'll then have to override to get the installation paths that I want
> (namely a flat tree of bin, sbin, lib, man, info, and etc); with over five
> hundred packages install
Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The changes here for the GNU Coding Standards (which I'm proposing,
> > and RMS has now agreed to) will not add any new paths, it will simply
> > change some that currently exist.
>
> For this to be effective and useful, it would mean that most every
Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" wrote:
> >
> > Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > > The changes here for the GNU Coding Standards (which I'm proposing,
> > > > and RMS has
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > AutoConf should support very convenient mechanisms to handle whatever
> > layout makes sysadmins happy. --with-gnu-layout or --with-fhs-layout
> > would be good. Maybe better: --with-layout-file=/path/to/l
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