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Subject: Re: What use is WWWDIR_REL?
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On 02/08/2012 07:36, Alex Dupre wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
>> So this leads me to many questions, the first and most obvious of which
>> is, what the heck good is WWWDIR_REL in the first place?
> 
> I don't follow you: in what sense WWWDIR_REL is different from, e.g.,
> DOCSDIR_REL or DATADIR_REL? Why do you want to remove it and not the
> others?

Looking again at this bit of bpm:

PLIST_SUB+=     DOCSDIR="${DOCSDIR_REL}" \
                EXAMPLESDIR="${EXAMPLESDIR_REL}" \
                DATADIR="${DATADIR_REL}" \
                WWWDIR="${WWWDIR_REL}" \
                ETCDIR="${ETCDIR_REL}"

You're right, the silliness is universal. I was focused on WWWDIR
because I was working with it. They should probably all go away, but I
don't have the time atm to do an exhaustive search on where/how they are
all used.


Doug

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