On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 12:25:52PM +0000, Edward Avis wrote:
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> On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Michael G Schwern wrote:
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> >    If for some wacky reason you've got things configured to be
> >    outside your prefix (/var/man/man3, for example) it will fallback
> >    to a hardcoded structure of our choosing.  Currently I'm likely
> >    to use:
> >
> >        $(PREFIX)/lib/perl5/
> >        $(PREFIX)/bin/
> >        $(PREFIX)/man/
> 
> Possibly $(PREFIX)/share/man would be better to make sure that
> PREFIX=/usr is FHS-compliant.  OTOH this would mean that
> PREFIX=/opt/whatever would not be FHS-compliant, since that standard
> specifies /usr/share/man/ but /opt/packagename/man/.

I don't think its MakeMaker's job to enforce Linux FHS standards.
Especially if you're not running Linux! :)

All together now... o/` All the world's a VAX\h\h\hUnix\h\h\h\hLinux o/`


> Probably as long as you first check both $(PREFIX)/share/man and
> $(PREFIX)/man and use one of those if it exists, I don't think the
> choice of share/man vs just man for the default matters much.
> 
> >This at least ensures that if you say PREFIX you're *guaranteed* that
> >everything will wind up under that prefix.
> 
> Unless someone has snuck a few '..'s into some other variables :-).

*Gurgle*


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