Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] powertweak-0.1.16-1mdk

[Guillaume Cottenceau]

Anton Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Submitted 18-Jul-00 by David Walluck:
> > But, a question... if you ./configure --prefix=/usr isn't mandir stil
> > $prefix/man? How is this going to work? Files will not be placed in
> > /usr/share/man by default :(
> 
> Yes, until autoconf catches up, @MANDIR@ will default to ${prefix}/man.
> You can work around this in the meantime by specifying ./configure
> --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man

No no no!! you need to use %configure !!

> A bigger problem is the Makefiles that use ${prefix}/man instead of
> @MANDIR@.  Our RPM macros (%configure and %make-install) will pass
> mandir correctly to ./configure and make, but there will undoubtedly
> be a lot of patched makefiles before the move is complete.

rpmlint is your friend :-).


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