[project @ 2005-01-20 14:22:26 by simonmar]
Fill in the haddock-interfaces and haddock-html fields in the
package.conf files.
To do this I had to make some changes:
- haddock-interfaces requires the value of $(datadir). We can't
just plug this in, because $(datadir) might change at install-time
(eg. a Windows installer can be placed anywhere, as can a Unix
binary .tar.gz distribution). The current trick is for the
compiler to splice in the value of $libdir in package.conf at
runtime. So we could extend this mechanism and tell the compiler
the value of $datadir via a command-line option, but that seems
ugly.
On Windows, $datadir==$libdir, so we don't need any changes:
package.conf still uses $libdir, and a Windows installation is
independent of its absolute location. Even 'make install' on
Windows should have this property.
On Unix:
- for 'make install' and in-place execution, we just use
absolute paths in package.conf
- for a binary dist, we generate a package.conf that refers
to $libdir and $datadir, and splice in the values at
install-time (distrib/Makefile-bin.in).
- Also, I renamed $libdir to $topdir to more closely reflect its
actual meaning. This is somewhat malicious in that it will flush
out all those clients using $libdir when they really shouldn't
be :-)