Path to config files in manpages

[Christian Kurz]

On 01-01-09 Pekka Savola wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Christian Kurz wrote:
> > 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?

> You'll be easiest off if you do something like RPM specfile after
> building and installing under $RPM_BUILD_ROOT:

> perl -pi -e "s|$RPM_BUILD_ROOT||g" $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/man*/*

Well, I just wonder why the configure switch is not recognized by sshd.
I wonder why it still tries to search in a dir that I didn't specify.
This should happen and for my local openssh that I build from cvs it
works as expected.

Ciao
     Christian
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