[Scrollkeeper-devel] installation location

[Paul P. <pog...@gm...>]

Hi,

I received this complaint from a user:

=09http://gna.org/bugs/?func=3Ddetailitem&item_id=3D2090

After running `configure' script without any parameters, documentation
files are all installed under `/usr/local', including OMF files that
go to `/usr/local/omf' and ScrollKeeper database files that go to
`/usr/local/var/scrollkeeper'.  While the former is probably OK, the
second prevents help browsers from including the installed help files
to global system list of manuals.

I'm using a standard `omf.make' file taken from GNOME.  It has these
lines in opening comments:

  # Note that you must configure your package with --localstatedir=3D/var=
/lib
  # so that the scrollkeeper-update command below will update the databas=
e
  # in the standard scrollkeeper directory.
  #
  # If it is impossible to configure with --localstatedir=3D/var/lib, the=
n
  # modify the definition of scrollkeeper_localstate_dir so that
  # it points to the correct location. Note that you must still use=20
  # $(localstatedir) in this or when people build RPMs it will update
  # the real database on their system instead of the one under RPM_BUILD_=
ROOT.

and then:

  scrollkeeper_localstate_dir =3D $(localstatedir)/scrollkeeper

So my questions are:

* Is it normal that ScrollKeeper database files go to `/usr/local/var'
  and not `/var' by default?

* How do I ``configure your package with --localstatedir=3D/var/lib''?  I=
s
  it assumed that users should run it like

=09./configure --localstatedir=3D/var/lib

  or should I add some magic to the `configure.ac' file?  The former seem=
s
  unlikely as most users won't read READMEs unless something really goes
  wrong...

Thank you.

Paul