From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 05:49:01 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: New locations for config files and support binaries, and smarter default for install... 
X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/commitdiff_plain/46f35e659f3bc3e808a70263bea0ec72624c8a08?hp=46f35e659f3bc3e808a70263bea0ec72624c8a08

New locations for config files and support binaries, and smarter default for install root directory.

The default locations for config files and back-end executables has
changed.

Config files have moved from ${sysconfdir} to ${sysconfdir}/nmh, and
the back-end programs from ${libdir} to ${libexecdir}/nmh.

The only user-visible change is the addition of a new mhparam(1)
component 'libexecdir', which replaces the previous 'libdir'.  User
scripts invoking 'mhparam libdir' will need an update.  'libdir'
has been kept around for the time being, to give people a chance
to update their scripts.  It returns the same value as 'libexecdir'.
'libdir' has been marked deprecated in the mhparam(1) manpage and
the release notes; it will be removed in a couple of releases.

In conjunction with this change there was an opportunity to do a
bit of Makefile cleanup.  The old 'auxexec' construct has been
replaced with a new scheme that leverages automake's templating.
The auxexec_* references have been replaced with nmhlibexec_* forms,
and a corresponding nmhlibexecdir variable defined as ${libexecdir}/nmh.

Likewise, etcdir has been replaced with nmhetcdir.

These name changes have percolated downstream to some extent, primarily
in the man pages and test scripts.

Finally, configure has been made a bit smarter about setting the
default ${prefix}.  If it finds an existing nmh installation, it
will set the default ${prefix} to match, falling back to /usr/local/nmh.
configure looks for an existing installation by searching $PATH for
a viable mhparam binary.
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