[Asterisk-Dev] make webvmail - could use more failure messages

[Jerris, Michael MI]

> Andrew C. Brown
> 
> make webvmail assumes that the host webserver directories are 
> in one of two directories. If either directory does not 
> exist, make fails with a simple "No http directory" or "No 
> cgi-bin directory". That doesn't give the user much direction 
> so it added some hassle to look through Makefile to see where 
> it was -wanting- to install to and to find my web directories 
> on my distribution and match them up.
> 
> I tweaked with Makefile so that:
> 
> 1) The destination directories are fully parameterized by a 
> single arbirary assigment statement each. (i.e no assumptions 
> are made later in the code about the path form.)
> 2) If the default directories are not found, the error 
> message now says where to modify the Makefile.
> 3) Comments in the Makefile near the parameter assignment 
> hint where to look in apache conf file for the systems 
> current configuration.
> 
> Is this a patch that would be of broad use? I'm a n00b and 
> welcome feedback. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to post the 
> patch here for a lookover, but it's short enough that I'll 
> just go ahead.
> 
> Comments anyone?
> 
> 

Can you please post a bug to mantis for this (bugs.digium.com) to be
reviewed.

Thanks.