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Re: [Bug-wget] $sysconfdir undocumented


From: Micah Cowan
Subject: Re: [Bug-wget] $sysconfdir undocumented
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 13:41:42 -0800
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On 12/04/2010 05:17 AM, Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote:
> UNIX distributions that provide wget will likely have PREFIX=/usr; however, 
> having sysconfdir=/usr/etc is unlikely.
> Therefore, the following information in INSTALL is incorrect:
> 
>> and the
>> default config file to $PREFIX/etc
> 
> whereas the correct text would be
> 
>> and the
>> default config file to $sysconfig
> 
> Please consider updating this misleading information and please mention 
> --sysconfig as an important option in INSTALL.

Looks like the current development sources have replaced the
wget-specific INSTALL with a generic one from gnulib/doc. Not really
crazy about that, since the wget-specific one had good information about
what prerequisites are needed and what for... but anyway it seems
there's nothing to apply this fix to now.

-- 
Micah J. Cowan
http://micah.cowan.name/



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