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Bug#551763: License for FOCAL Interpreter



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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