From: joey Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:28:08 +0000 (+0000) Subject: response X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/commitdiff_plain/ebf414d3d4f5fffb456327b5649c50d5a2de4e90?hp=0bddcaed14c9424eb0f5222decb435a1fee9aaae response --- diff --git a/doc/bugs/PREFIX_not_honoured_for_underlaydir.mdwn b/doc/bugs/PREFIX_not_honoured_for_underlaydir.mdwn index a8ae17995..fe22df19c 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/PREFIX_not_honoured_for_underlaydir.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/PREFIX_not_honoured_for_underlaydir.mdwn @@ -14,4 +14,20 @@ However when I try to run ikiwiki I get an error as follows: Can't stat /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki: No such file or directory at /home/ed/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/IkiWiki/Render.pm line 349 -The PREFIX specified at build time should also affect the share directory - it shouldn't try to use /usr/share here. \ No newline at end of file +The PREFIX specified at build time should also affect the share directory - +it shouldn't try to use /usr/share here. + + Actually, the PREFIX, no matter where you specify it, is only + intended to control where files are _installed_, not where they're + looked for at runtime. + + There's a good reason not to make PREFIX be used to actually + change the program's behavior: Most packaging systems use PREFIX + when building the package, to make it install into a temporary + directory which gets packaged up. + + It would probably be nice if ikiwiki offered a separate build-time + setting to control where it looked for its data files, though it already + offers a way to do it at runtime (--underlaydir and --templatedir). + + --[[Joey]]