Re: [HACKERS] doc troubles. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: [HACKERS] doc troubles.
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.3.96.980302233204.230H-100000@thelab.hub.org
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] doc troubles.  (darrenk@insightdist.com (Darren King))
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On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Darren King wrote:

> > >
> > > What version of tar understands how to ungzip a .gz file?
> > >
> > > Is this what the 'z' flag is for?
> >
> >     gnu tar supports the 'z' flag to uncompress and untar at the same
> > time...
>
> This sucks.  As a group that seems to not like GNU (or at least their
> license), we require enough of their tools to compile/install postgres.

    Actually, I have nothing against GNU...its the GPL that I don't
like :)  Big big difference...

> Is that what $POSTDOCDIR is for in the Makefile.global?  Would this be
> a candidate for "--doc-prefix=" to be added to configure?  I'd like to
> be able to put the html docs under my web root instead of the postgres
> root dir.

    Actually, I had to edit the Makefile in the doc directory directly
to get it to install where I wanted...

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org


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