Re: changes.html entry for default installation directories

[Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf dot Wildenhues at gmx dot de>]

* Gerald Pfeifer wrote on Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:11:51PM CEST:
> The web page changes per se look fine; if you don't get a response
> on the technical questions/suggestions I suggest to resend those
> with a different subject. :-)

Wow, this was a long time ago.  Sorry for dropping the ball on this.

I have installed the web page changes from
<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-09/msg01598.html>
as below now, with an added h3 headline to not mix it up with plugin
changes.  The problems described in PR other/43132
<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-10/msg00696.html>
still exist but the addition to changes.html is better than no addition
at all even in the presence of these issues.

Thanks,
Ralf

Index: htdocs/gcc-4.5/changes.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.5/changes.html,v
retrieving revision 1.80
diff -u -r1.80 changes.html
--- htdocs/gcc-4.5/changes.html	6 Apr 2010 13:49:00 -0000	1.80
+++ htdocs/gcc-4.5/changes.html	7 Apr 2010 05:14:45 -0000
@@ -736,6 +736,74 @@
     the details on how plugins can interact with the compiler.</li>
   </ul>
 
+<h3>Installation changes</h3>
+
+  <ul>
+    <li>
+    The move to newer autotools changed default installation directories
+    and switches to control them:
+
+    The <code>--with-datarootdir</code>, <code>--with-docdir</code>,
+    <code>--with-pdfdir</code>, and <code>--with-htmldir</code> switches are
+    not used any more.  Instead, you can now use <code>--datarootdir</code>,
+    <code>--docdir</code>, <code>--htmldir</code>, and <code>--pdfdir</code>.
+    The default installation directories have changed as follows according to
+    the GNU Coding Standards:
+
+    <table>
+      <tbody>
+	<tr>
+	  <td>datarootdir</td>
+	  <td>read-only architecture-independent data root [PREFIX/share]</td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+	  <td>localedir</td>
+	  <td>locale-specific message catalogs [DATAROOTDIR/locale]</td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+	  <td>docdir</td>
+	  <td>documentation root [DATAROOTDIR/doc/PACKAGE]</td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+	  <td>htmldir</td>
+	  <td>html documentation [DOCDIR]</td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+	  <td>dvidir</td>
+	  <td>dvi documentation [DOCDIR]</td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+	  <td>pdfdir</td>
+	  <td>pdf documentation [DOCDIR]</td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+	  <td>psdir</td>
+	  <td>ps documentation [DOCDIR]</td>
+	</tr>
+      </tbody>
+    </table>
+
+    The following variables have new default values:
+
+    <table>
+      <tbody>
+	<tr>
+	  <td>datadir</td>
+	  <td>read-only architecture-independent data [DATAROOTDIR]</td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+	  <td>infodir</td>
+	  <td>info documentation [DATAROOTDIR/info]</td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+	  <td>mandir</td>
+	  <td>man documentation [DATAROOTDIR/man]</td>
+	</tr>
+      </tbody>
+    </table>
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+
 
 </body>
 </html>