[PLUG] Another rebuild error

[Paul Heinlein]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Rich Shepard wrote:

> Never mind. Errors in the .spec file. When I look at the directory
> structure, I see that the info/ and man/ directores are up one
> level. That is, under /usr/ and not under /usr/share/.

Right. Documentation is all doing under /usr/share these days. Red Hat 
made the switch in a couple stages from 6.2 to 7.1.

It seem to me the 'right' way to build portable .spec files is to use 
the _infodir and _mandir variables for info and man pages

  %files
  %{_prefix}/bin/foo
  %doc %{_infodir}/foo*.info.gz
  %doc %{_mandir}/man1/foo.gz

rather than storing them relative to _prefix

  %files
  %{_prefix}/bin/foo
  %doc %{_prefix}/share/info/foo*.info.gz
  %doc %{_prefix}/share/man/man1/foo.gz

The same is true when running configure:

  CFLAGS="%{optflags}" \
  ./configure \
    --prefix=%{_prefix} \
    --infodir=%{_infodir} \
    --mandir=%{_mandir}

That way, it doesn't matter if you build for 5.x, 6.x, or 7.x -- all 
the documentation goes to the right spot.

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>