From: Geoff McLane <ubuntu@geoffair.info>
To: Adam Thompson <arthompson1990@gmail.com>
Cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>, edbrowse-dev@edbrowse.org
Subject: Re: [edbrowse-dev] documentation respecting install prefix in cmake
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 21:31:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <460ad829-de45-7788-f776-bcd37c65a0de@geoffair.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191226184323.GA4808@toaster>
Hi Dominique, Adam,
What was I thinking... I am out of my depth... me, offer UNIX
suggestion... ha, ha,...
But I do use cmake all-the-time, as my preferred cross-os build system
generator...
And Adam, certainly agree with "it's almost always a good idea to keep
packaged and unpackaged software from playing with each other's installed
files."...
In a way that's why my build-me.sh is set to /NOT/ touch a dpkg install...
I started to look around at various other projects I can compile with
CMake...
find a lot of sometimes confusing, even contradictory... information...
and all that I find do often define their own man or doc install
directories...
but generally each make it dependent on the root CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX...
So Dominique, it seems the fix you have is good... will get to testing
that...
But other questions popped up... like...
why do we have 2 slightly different UnixManFile... debian vs freebsd...
are the man app implementations /SO/ different... in a quick review, seems
they could be one...
And they could use like @EDB_VERSION@, @VER_DATE@, etc... even say a
@DOC_INSTALL@, for the usersguide.html pointer... etc... etc...
It seems the cmake default CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX of "/usr/local" is
generally agreed as the /ROOT/...
So others components are "/ROOT/bin, lib, include"
And then the man being "/ROOT/share/man/man1"...
But it looks like some distros prefer "/ROOT/man/man1", which
would also be ok in my Ubuntu debian based linux, in that there is
a link "man -> share/man" ... must look in my Raspian RPI...
Then the docs to "/ROOT/share/doc/<project>"...
But like I say, who am I to suggest anything in unix ;=))
Must have been too full of the Christmas cheer...
As state, your patch looks like a good start... sorry for the noise...
Regards, Geoff.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-26 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-25 13:36 Adam Thompson
2019-12-25 13:47 ` Dominique Martinet
2019-12-25 14:05 ` Adam Thompson
2019-12-25 16:29 ` Dominique Martinet
2019-12-25 17:42 ` Geoff McLane
2019-12-26 18:43 ` Adam Thompson
2019-12-26 20:31 ` Geoff McLane [this message]
2019-12-26 20:51 ` Dominique Martinet
2019-12-27 15:58 ` alf.siciliano
2019-12-27 20:26 ` Geoff McLane
2020-01-16 20:28 ` Adam Thompson
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