New SysV init version

Jesse Smith jessefrgsmith at yahoo.ca
Mon Dec 23 13:56:32 GMT 2024


On 2024-12-23 09:40, Mark Hindley wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 09:22:55AM -0400, Jesse Smith wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> This was not a deliberate change to move the location of the manual pages,
>> just where we ended up with the patch for setting the mandir variable.
>>
>> Which means either mandir can be set by the build environment or I can
>> accept a patch upstream to tweak where mandir points by default. Though in
>> that case we may end up in a back-and-forth with different distributions
>> wanting to adjust mandir.
> 
> I am not sure that is the issue (or I have misunderstood). It is about the path
> beneath mandir:
> 
>   previously LANG/manN/page
> 
>   now manN/LANG/page.
> 


So if we just swap the order around we should be fine, changing the 
Makefile from

$(INSTALL_DIR) $(ROOT)$(mandir)/manN/$$lang;

to

$(INSTALL_DIR) $(ROOT)$(mandir)/$$lang/manN;


Does that look good to you?




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