Is the handbook no longer installed?

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Wed Mar 3 07:51:18 PST 2004


Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> writes:

> one basic question is where is the normal place for the
> handbook?  is is /usr/doc or /usr/share/doc?  an iso
> install puts in in /usr/share/doc, and a 'normal' cvsup
> puts it in /usr/doc because one normally (yes, there
> is no normal:-) has 
>    *default base=/usr

The normal place for the sources is /usr/doc, which is what your
supfile is doing.  [I put mine in /usr/src/doc, but that's just me.]
The normal place for the built docs is in /usr/share/doc, which is
where the docs build will put it by default.


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