On Wed, 2007 Mar 07 14:44:01 +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> I see that the new "make install" installs a number of text files in
> <prefix>/share/doc/pcre, including AUTHORS, LICENCE, etc. That seems
> fair enough, though is it normal to install the building documentation
> such as README and INSTALL? Those aren't user documentation.
README yes, usually, but not INSTALL. (README has the download URL, among
other useful bits, so I'd keep it in.)
I guess this is one part of the update that we haven't looked at too
closely until now....
> It also includes NON-UNIX-USE, which is all about building in
> non-Autotools environments where "make install" can't be used. I'm not
> at all sure that it's right to install it with "make install". Another
> file I'm unhappy with is "perltest.txt", which described the Perl
> testing script perltest.pl, which itself is *not* installed.
>
> I think those two files should be removed from those that are installed,
> and I wonder about README and INSTALL.
>
> Views?
I agree about removing the files you mentioned; keep README, and remove
INSTALL.
(Of course, in this context, "remove" would mean moving the files from
dist_doc_DATA to EXTRA_DIST, so that they still go into the tarball)
--Daniel
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