Re: Package support (RPM, deb, pkg, kits, etc.)

2001-01-16 Thread Derek R. Price
Tom Tromey wrote: > The idea behind DOCUMENTATION is to provide a way to install README > and the other stuff that ends up (eg) in /usr/doc/$PACKAGE. Just a note, I believe the RedHat standard is /usr/share/doc now. Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVS

Another problem with BSD Make

2001-01-16 Thread Derek R. Price
It seems some BSD makes don't look through VPATH for targets either (i.e. when they're not found in $(builddir) make assumes they are missing and rebuilds). Mostly this isn't a problem, but there are a few cases where it is. For example, info targets are rebuilt every time and I can't create a *

Re: bug: depcomp misplaced

2001-01-16 Thread Derek R. Price
"Derek R. Price" wrote: > Okay, I fixed this as well as all the special casing of '.' that the code is > littered with FIXME comments about. I've included ChangeLog entries in the patch > as well as a new test case, but here's a bit more detail: Is there some reason this patch was never checked

Where to install a daemon

2001-01-16 Thread Bill Segall
As part of my package I want to install a daemon and I have three reasonable places to install int which are bin, sbin and libexec. On a Linux system sbin seems like the natural place but on *BSD libexec is natural. I was trying to find out how to make this choice based on architecture but I'll co

Re: automake-m4-cleanup.patch

2001-01-16 Thread Akim Demaille
Applied.

Re: Support for configure.ac

2001-01-16 Thread Akim Demaille
Will be applied within a couple of minutes.