[Patch] relative links instead of absolute links in documentation directories

Stephan Kulow coolo at kde.org
Thu Nov 14 11:53:41 GMT 2002


Am Thursday 14 November 2002 09:41 schrieb Helge Deller:
> Hi,
>
> In all documentation directories ($(KDEDIR)/share/doc/HTML/en/$(APPNAME))
> we currently create an absolute symbolic link (filename: common) to the
> $(KDEDIR)/share/doc/HTML/en/common directory.
>
> I think it is a bad idea to use absolute paths here (and everywhere else
> btw.) since it makes packaging and net-mounting of such a directory to
> another local directory nearly impossible.
>
> The following patch creates relative symbolic links to ../common instead
> and seems to work correctly for me during my tests.
>
> It would be great if somebody could take over from me and check it into CVS
> before 3.1 if this patch is OK. I'll be away for the next 1-2 days and
> won't be able to do it.

This breaks if you compile with a prefix != prefix of kdelibs

Greetings, Stephan





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