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Hello.
Michael Bukin wrote:
> Gary Simmons <darshu@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > Oh just an additional note about my patch... on my system (RedHat 6.0) the
> > location of "INFO_DIR" is /etc/info-dir however I just noticed that there
> > is also a symbolic link - /usr/info/dir which points to that... So I
> > don't know which one is the standard place to put it but whichever it is,
> > that is what INFO_DIR should obviously be =) (the /usr/info/dir seems to
> > be the more likely candidate for being standard though IMHO)
> It should be $(infodir)/dir, but perhaps install-info should not be
> used at all, because it was not included in older versions of info and
> some systems (Debian) had different programs with such names.
I checked with my current Debian Potato system, there is an executable
called install-info to install info pages.
The best thing to do is to check for the existence of that executable
and use it if it exists... But you said that Debian had a different
program with that name??? Seems strange to me... what version was that?
[snip]
> Also gzip should not be used automatically, and I don't think it is
> necessary as separate target.
You cant test if it exists, and if it exists then use it
automatically...
Also, other thing that doesn't had been discussed here (I think) is the
different organization of filesystems...
For example, most distributions are compliant with FSSTND, but Debian
2.2 is moving to FHS 2.1 (draft not finished yet... but is very similar
to FHS 2.0).
In my opinion, the makefile or configure script (I didn't build the
Linux version of Allegro yet, so I don't know if it already does
this...) should let you select the directories for the documentation,
executables, other data, etc. Autoconf does this automatically I
think... and if I remember correctly Allegro was going to use or uses
Autoconf right?
Ok, sorry for not being too much up to date with Allegro development...
Bye.
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