From: Stephen Fisher <sfisher@SDF.ORG>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git's configure script --mandir doesn't work
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 12:41:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141210194150.GA28190@SDF.ORG> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141205093619.GE32112@peff.net>
On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 04:36:20AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 04:25:32PM -0700, Stephen Fisher wrote:
>
> > I'm installing Git 2.2.0 from source distribution on NetBSD 6.1.5
> > (amd64) and when I specify --mandir=/usr/local/man, it still
> > installs man pages in the default /usr/local/share/man directory.
> > Is there a fix available for this?
>
> It works fine for me here (Debian):
> Can you elaborate on the commands you're running? After running the
> configure script, can you confirm that "mandir" is set appropriately
> in config.mak.autogen?
Thanks for your reply and sorry for my delay in responding.
I'm executing ./configure --mandir=/usr/local/man --disable-pthreads
then gmake and gmake install. I'm using gmake (GNU make) because I get
Makefile errors with the regular BSD make, but that's another issue.
I'm disabling pthreads because there is a linking error for undefined
references to a few functions (I probably need to pass -lpthread in
LDFLAGS, but haven't tried that yet).
mandir is properly set in config.mak.autogen.
When I set prefix to /tmp/foo and mandir to /tmp/bar like your example,
it installs things into /tmp/foo, but /tmp/bar isn't even created.
I noticed text files in Documentation/ that look like the content of man
pages, and when I run gmake in that directory, I get an error about
asciidoc missing to make an HTML file. Is asciidoc required for the man
pages as well? I don't see any files that appear to be man page format
other than in perl/blib/man3 and those are installed (but not under the
mandir prefix, rather the default /usr/local/share/man prefix).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-10 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-04 23:25 Git's configure script --mandir doesn't work Stephen Fisher
2014-12-05 9:36 ` Jeff King
2014-12-10 19:41 ` Stephen Fisher [this message]
2014-12-10 19:55 ` Jeff King
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