From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Feb 27 15:16:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA18854 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 15:16:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA18845 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 15:16:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from thurston.eng.umd.edu (thurston.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.206]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.7) with ESMTP id SAA07631; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 18:15:23 -0500 (EST) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by thurston.eng.umd.edu (8.7.4/8.7) id SAA13894; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 18:15:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 18:15:14 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@thurston.eng.umd.edu To: Thomas Gellekum cc: Satoshi Asami , adam@veda.is, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: doc directory In-Reply-To: <199602270819.JAA29921@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Thomas Gellekum wrote: > Satoshi Asami wrote: > > > > * I propose that either /usr/local/doc or /usr/local/share/doc be created > > * as a suitable location for such files. Which one should it be? > > > > I think this is a good idea. I'd like to see share/doc, as /usr/local > > is already pretty crowded as it is. > > We did discuss this a few weeks ago, didn't we? I was waiting for > Chuck Robey to step forward; he wanted to make some changes to > bsd.port.mk to support ${PORTSDOCDIR}. > > I think it should be enough to set ${PORTSDOCDIR} to > ${PREFIX}/share/doc/${PKGNAME} and add it to the exported variables > for the various scripts and the Makefile in ${WRKSRC}. I wanted the change, too. From what I understood (and I could have been wrong) Satoshi was telling me if I wanted such a thing, code it in each ports makefile, that it wasn't needed to change bsd.port.mk. I disagreed, but I don't trust myself to make changes in bsd.port.mk (what a tangle!) so I let it lie. > > tg > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------