[Xastir-dev] Manpage location.

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:38:13PM +1000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <carl at stagecraft.cx> flavor, containing:
> Hi Curt,
> 
> I've struck a problem with the man page on the FreeBSD port.
> 
> According to cvs,
> Revision 1.38 of Makefile.am updated at
> Wed Nov 15 16:45:58 2006 UTC (7 months, 3 weeks ago) by we7u 
> 
> and the comment was
> ---------------------
> Changing the man page directory from $prefix/man to $prefix/share/man, per
> FHS-2.3 and LSB-3.1
> ---------------------
> 
> actually $prefix/man *is* FHS 2.3 (and thus LSB) compliant. The only
> note about "$prefix/share/man" in the FHS PDF is;
> 
> ---------------------
> 4.9. /usr/local/share
> The requirements for the contents of this directory are the same as /usr/share. The only additional constraint
> is that /usr/local/share/man and /usr/local/man directories must be synonomous (usually this means
> that one of them must be a symbolic link). 
> ---------------------
> 
> Well on FreeBSD there is no /usr/local/share/man and no symbolic link but there is a /usr/local/man.  
> Also for some reason the "--mandir=" override in configure doesn't work!
> 
> So, would it be possible to get the manpage moved back to $prefix/man
> please?  Any FHS compliant distros should have the symlink so it shouldn't matter.

Hmmm.  I build on FreeBSD all the time and never noticed this issue (I never
look at the man page).  But sure enough, xastir and GDAL have both dropped
their man pages into /usr/local/share/man.

It would be nice if LSB-compliance didn't have to force "share" into the
path on systems that aren't Linux.

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