On 12/10/2009 08:20 AM, Dave Pitts wrote: > OK, I've made "equivalent" changes to the Makefile. The install program > does not exist on all *nix platforms. Only Linux (I think)... Also, > added the man page install. Thanks, it looks good. I do have a question, though: Is there any reason to install the manpages into $(INSTDIR)/man instead of $(INSTDIR)/share/man? As of the FHS 2.3, /usr/man is deprecated in favor of /usr/share/man: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREMANMANUALPAGES Since most distributions will end up installing a packaged version of focal into /usr rather than /usr/local, this means they will have to make a little change when building to be FHS-compliant. Of course, the default $(INSTDIR) does point to /usr/local. And the FHS 2.3 does say that /usr/local/man and /usr/local/share/man must be synonymous--there must be a symlink between them, probably. So I think there would be no harm in just installing into /usr/local/share/man by default: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALSHARE1 Also, just a little reminder that you might want to update the link on your homepage to point to the latest tarball (http://www.cozx.com/~dpitts). Thanks, Daniel
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