Re: Fine-grained install control

[Keith MARSHALL]

Hi Robert,

Robert Lowe wrote:
[Re: setting an appropriate man page installation path]
> Or a warning that without it, manpages will not be installed
> and then prevent them from being put in the wrong place?

If you are installing with /usr/local/<package> as ${prefix},
then your binaries go in /usr/local/<package>/bin, and, unless
you make it otherwise, configure generated with autoconf <= 2.59
will put man pages /usr/local/<package>/man/...; (it seems that
autoconf 2.60 will change this to /usr/local/<package>/share/man).

Does the placement of binaries in /usr/local/<package>/bin require
the user to add this to his PATH?  If so, man should then search
automatically in /usr/local/<package>/man, (at least the version
I've just ported to MinGW will).  I'm not sure if it will also
search /usr/local/<package>/share/man, (and in any case, that
just looks plain wrong to me -- surely it should be written such
that it becomes /usr/local/share/<package>/man), but if the FSF
are moving these particular goalposts, then perhaps man should
be adapted to suit.

With this automatic MANPATH configuration, is it really so wrong
to install your man pages in /usr/local/<package>/man?

Regards,
Keith.