Path to config files in manpages

Christian Kurz shorty at getuid.de
Wed Jan 10 07:59:54 EST 2001


On 01-01-09 mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Christian Kurz wrote:
> > I just noticed that the path to some config files in the manpages get's
> > replaced during the build of the debian package with the pathes which
> > are used during the build. This is not good, since the path will not be
> > the same for the enduser, who installs the deb. Is it intented that the
> > pathes in the manpage get generated during compilation and should I know
> > generate a script for debian to fix them?

> My suggestion is you pull the 'fixpaths' call out of Makefile.in and embed
> the script into your install script.  That way it should be correctly
> modified per each .deb install.

Thanks, but I found an other better fix to generate correct pathes, but
now I have the following problem: I said --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh and it
uses this path in the compile process. But if I start sshd it tries to
read /etc/sshd_config. Do you have any idea what I missed?

Ciao
     Christian
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