>>>>> David Starks-Browning writes:
D> Hello Albrecht,
D> I just found this in the fvwm mailing list archives:
> To: FVWM-Workers mailing list <fvwm-workers_at_hpc.uh.edu>
> Subject: X11R4 install process
> From: albrecht_at_auto.tuwien.ac.at (Albrecht Kadlec)
> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 96 16:01:41 +0200
>
> . . .
>
> also the Bug I reported already twice, but nobody ever answered :-(
>
> MANPATH is settable in Fvwm.tmpl (~ Line 278) but in Line 414
> InstallManPage(program,$(MANDIR))
> is used to install the pages.
>
> in the generated Makefile, I find:
> DESTDIR = /XTech
> MANDIR = $(DESTDIR)/man/mann
> which tries to install them globally (which is not permitted to me!)
>
> so I see three possibilities:
>
> 1.) maybe our (X11R4) setup is ruined, if so the tell me what is wrong, please.
> Should I mail the generated Makefile here?
>
> 2.) Fvwm.tmpl messes up MANDIR & MANPATH
> (it seems to me that FvwmManPath should be FvwmManDir, and
> MANPATH should be MANDIR throughoutall of Fvwm.tmpl)
>
> 3.) MANDIR should also be configurable in Fvwm.tmpl,
> for those who want to install Fvwm binary & documentation in ~/anyname/
>
>
> I think it's 2) at least all things went smooth when I did this.
>
> cheers,
> albrecht
D> I guess this was for fvwm-2.0.42? Well, I have the same problem with
D> 2.0.43, and I found no "official" solutions to this problem in the
D> archives. Are we really the only two who require this feature? Or
D> are we the only ones doing it wrong? If it is indeed a mistake in
D> Fvwm.tmpl then they ought to fix it for 2.0.44, don't you think?
I've had this problem since 2.0.41 (up to now : 2.0.43!)
D> What do you know about the disposition of this problem?
nobody ever seemed to notice this message.
(I only have a dim memory of this, though. But I described it pretty
accurately in the message above.)
D> (I am just starting with fvwm today.)
D> Regards,
D> David
regards,
albrecht
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Received on Sat Oct 05 1996 - 08:58:24 BST