Bugs item #2897155, was opened at 2009-11-13 12:29
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Category: compile or build problem
Group: wrong behaviour
Status: Closed
Resolution: Wont Fix
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Peter Pentchev (roamer)
Assigned to: Daniel Stenberg (bagder)
Summary: No special handling for the documentation dirs

Initial Comment:
Somewhat hard-pressed to report this as a full-scale wrong-behavior bug, but that's what the tracker will have me do :)

Anyway, is there a reason why the docs subdirectories are handled with special make invocations in the installation hooks? I've had this patch in the FreeBSD port for a long time, just letting the build and install targets do the right thing automatically. Sorry for not submitting it earlier :) If it should get lost in the upload, it may always be found at
http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/ports/ftp/curl/files/patch-Makefile.in

And thanks for maintaining cURL!

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>Comment By: Daniel Stenberg (bagder)
Date: 2009-11-19 12:46

Message:
yeah, the reason for this was to reduce the extra build time it adds

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Comment By: Peter Pentchev (roamer)
Date: 2009-11-19 12:44

Message:
Argh. Guess it just wasn't my day, was it. I should've removed the
pkgconfigdir change - of course it's FreeBSD-specific :)

As to the rest - yeah, I guessed that there was a reason, I just didn't
know what it was. But since you feel it would be better this way, this way
it stays, then :) Was the reason for the change the build time for the
PS/PDF documentation, or was it something else? Just curious now :)

Once again, apologies for the wasted time, and thanks for actually taking
the time to answer!

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Comment By: Daniel Stenberg (bagder)
Date: 2009-11-17 17:12

Message:
Thanks for reporting this issue and helping us improve curl and libcurl.

We're awaiting feedback in this issue. Due to this, I have set the state
of this issue to pending and it will automatically get closed later on
unless we get further info.

Please consider answering the outstanding questions or providing the
missing info so that we can proceed to resolve this issue!

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Comment By: Daniel Stenberg (bagder)
Date: 2009-11-13 23:30

Message:
Let me instead reverse the question and ask why do you think it's worth
changing? We added it there once for a reason, so what problem does this
cause that you want to fix?

The pkgconfigdir change in the patch seems totally irrelevant, and will
break other systems so it cannot be made like that unconditionally.

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