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Bug 298878

Summary: media-sound/vsound: documentation installed outside /usr/share/doc/${PF}
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Gentoo Sound Team <sound>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-12-29 14:15:19 UTC
You're getting this bug because the package in summary installs its documentation (or at least part of it) outside the usual /usr/share/doc/${PF} directory.

First, please keep in mind that this bug might not be noticeable for -r0 ebuilds, but it might be for -r1 and later, since if the ebuild has same name and version of the package, for -r0 it might correspond properly.

To fix this, if the package uses autotools, recent version (autoconf 2.61+) have two ./configure switches: --docdir and --htmldir to decide where to put the documentation. Older versions might require you override docdir/htmldir or other custom variables during make install.

For non-autotooled build systems, good luck, since I cannot tell you how to achieve the proper results, the same holds true with totally broken buildsystems even when based on autotools.

Thanks,
Diego
Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-04-24 16:55:03 UTC
hmm, there was Changelog vs. ChangeLog typo and pointless .la file, fixed those

>>> Installing (1 of 1) media-sound/vsound-0.6-r1
 * checking 6 files for package collisions
--- /usr/
--- /usr/share/
--- /usr/share/doc/
--- /usr/share/doc/vsound-0.6-r1/
>>> /usr/share/doc/vsound-0.6-r1/NEWS.bz2
>>> /usr/share/doc/vsound-0.6-r1/AUTHORS.bz2
>>> /usr/share/doc/vsound-0.6-r1/ChangeLog.bz2
>>> /usr/share/doc/vsound-0.6-r1/README.bz2
--- /usr/bin/
>>> /usr/bin/vsound
--- /usr/lib64/
--- /usr/lib64/vsound/
>>> /usr/lib64/vsound/libvsound.so