From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: "Herton R. Krzesinski" <herton@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: allow installing man pages to a user defined directory
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:50:44 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170420155044.0b87fc2d@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170420185728.10465-1-herton@redhat.com>
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:57:28 -0300
"Herton R. Krzesinski" <herton@redhat.com> wrote:
> Documentation/DocBook/Makefile hard codes the prefixed path to which you
> can install the built man pages (/usr/local prefix). That's unfortunate
> since the user may want to install to another prefix or location (for
> example, a distribution packaging the man pages may want to install to a
> random temporary location in the build process).
>
> Be flexible and allow the prefixed path to which we install man pages to be
> changed with the INSTALL_MAN_PATH environment variable (and use the same
> default as other similar variables like INSTALL_HDR_PATH).
Applied, thanks.
Of course, the DocBook-based man-page generation is fading away, and we
haven't managed to put together a replacement quite yet. Soon, I hope...
jon
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2017-04-20 18:57 [PATCH] Documentation: allow installing man pages to a user defined directory Herton R. Krzesinski
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