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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/PREFIX_not_honoured_for_underlaydir.mdwn | 18 |
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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]] |