Default values for infodir and mandir [WAS: Re: [autoconf] doc dirs?]

[Earnie Boyd]

Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
-8<-
>  AC_SUBST([infodir],        ['${prefix}/info'])dnl
> +AC_SUBST([docdir],         ['${datadir}/doc'])dnl
>  AC_SUBST([mandir],         ['${prefix}/man'])dnl
> 

In my simplistic mind having three places for documentation isn't
logical.  I can understand leaving switches for infodir and mandir in
place for backward compatibility but shouldn't there values default to
['$(docdir)/info'] and ['$(docdir)/man'] instead.  IIRC this is what the
FHS recommends.

-- 
Earnie.

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