Bug#551763: License for FOCAL Interpreter

[Dave Pitts <dpitts@cozx.com>]

Daniel Moerner wrote:
> 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
>
>   
No problems with the share/man. I changed the Makefile to 
$(INSTDIR)/share/man...
Some of my systems use /usr/man and /usr/local/man. So, that's why I'd 
set it to these values.
Anyway, it's changed.
> 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).
>   
I was waiting to change things until we were totally happy....
New tarball in the same place. When you're good with it, I'll change the 
link.
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>   
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