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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 01:05:36 +0200
From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
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Subject: Re: postgresql7 user message contains $PREFIX not /usr/local
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Dan Langille wrote:
> 
> On 24 Jul 2000, at 0:56, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> 
> > Dan Langille wrote:
> > >
> > > I just installed databases/postgresql7 and spotted the following
> > > message:
> > >
> > > To start PostgreSQL, run the startup script: $PREFIX/etc/rc.d/pgsql.sh
> > > start ===>   Compressing manual pages for postgresql-7.0.2
> > >
> > > To be nice to the user, who we all know doesn't know much, should we say
> > > "/usr/local" instead of "$PREFIX"?
> >
> > I guess, if the user is using a different prefix than
> > /usr/local, the user knows more than the average, and will
> > exchange /usr/local for their favourite prefix automatically in
> > his/her mind while reading the message ;-)
> >
> > You're probably right, putting /usr/local instead would
> > probably confuse a smaller amount of users :)
> 
> Actually, I think it should say /usr/local/ only if that's what PREFIX
> evaluates to.  My initial thoughts were that the code was not correctly
> evaluating the $PREFIX variable.  Rather, the string "$PREFIX" was
> being printed instead of the value contained within $PREFIX.

This could be done, but the text is in a file that is not
parsed by the makefile. This could easily be done, though.

-- 
Palle


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