Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> writes:
Keeping with historical practice, nmh uses /usr/local/nmh as the default
installation prefix (the default installation prefix for Autoconf is
just /usr/local). Everything gets installed underneath that using
default GNU pathnames, so (for example) man pages end up getting
installed in $(prefix)/share/man, which means that man pages by default
end up in /usr/local/nmh/share/man. AFAICT it's been that way since the
Autoconf-ization of nmh (which goes back to 1998).
I am reluctant to change this or add a new symlink as that would mess
up the reasonably standardized directory structure that currently exists,
and it's easy to solve - either adjust your man search path (via MANPATH
or a man configuration file) or change the man page location via the
--mandir configure option.
It does bring to my mind to ask why we're still using /usr/local/nmh;
AFACT when nmh is installed via packaging systems they install all of
the commands in the regular directories and not a special nmh directory.
But I don't have strong feelings either way, so unless others are itching
to change it probably /usr/local/nmh will stay the default.
I kinda like all of nmh being in one place. It's then much easier to do things
like, 'cp -a /usr/local/nmh /t/Olds/nmh-1.5-RC3' or to just manually explore the
hierarchy to see what's there. This is particularly true in the absence of
something like 'rpm --list'.
Norman Shapiro
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