On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 09:17:48PM +0200, Mario Blättermann wrote:
> in agetty.8.adoc the file path /usr/lib/ is hardcoded. At least the
> Mageia distribution (possibly others, too) uses /usr/lib64 for the
> x86_64 version instead. Would it be better to use {libdir} and let
> replace it on demand by a ./configure option? As far as I can
> evaluate, this should work with an option in Makefile.am:
>
> AM_CPPFLAGS = \
> ...
> -D_PATH_LIBDIR=\"${libdir}\"
>
> Similarly, we could think about to replace all file paths in man pages
> which are configurable during the installation.
Yes, use variables is perfect solution, go ahead and send patch ;-)
For now there is a problem that we distribute in tarball already
generated man pages (to avoid dependence on asciidoctor for some
use-cases). Maybe all we need is to add some sed(1) call to "if
HAVE_MANPAGES" section to modify these man pages. I'll try to improve
it. Anyway, for .adoc files is this irrelevant issue.
Karel
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