On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 04:20:38PM -0800, Joe Conway wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>Tom Lane wrote:
> >>
> >>>It's not only the downstream packagers that have missed these: the
> >>>Makefiles don't install them either.
> >>>
> >>>It'd be a good idea to settle on what we want the installed file layout
> >>>to be --- do we need to create subdirectories under {prefix}/doc to
> >>>forestall name conflicts?
> >
> >>While I'm messing with dblink, did you want me to do anything WRT this?
> >
> >I don't think we settled on what we want to do yet. Any thoughts?
> >
> >I'm kind of leaning toward the subdirectory idea myself...
>
> (I removed GENERAL, and added DOCS to the distribution of this thread)
>
> Well I like {prefix}/doc given that's how dblink is already set up ;-)
>
> Questions:
> - Do we want a naming convention for the files in
> {prefix}/doc?
> - Do we pre-create {prefix}/doc for every contrib
> directory in advance?
>
> I think the answers are no, and yes, but I don't feel strongly about either.
By {prefix} do you mean where PostgreSQL is being installed? If so, that
would be highly non-standard. I think what you'd want is
{prefix}/share/doc/postgresql/contrib/.
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