* Options to avoid docs generation/installation
@ 2017-05-21 2:56 Neil Cafferkey
2017-05-21 6:17 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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From: Neil Cafferkey @ 2017-05-21 2:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
Hi,
The INSTALL file says that docs are not built by default, but that's not my
experience. "make all" results in the generation of several Perl man pages,
e.g. "Git.3pm". Is it the case that the behaviour documented is not
propagated to the perl subdir?
Also, setting --mandir=/dev/null still results in the pages being installed
in their usual location (at least in combination with setting --prefix to
avoid disturbing my production git installation).
Regards,
Neil
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* Re: Options to avoid docs generation/installation
2017-05-21 2:56 Options to avoid docs generation/installation Neil Cafferkey
@ 2017-05-21 6:17 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason @ 2017-05-21 6:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Neil Cafferkey; +Cc: Git Mailing List
On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 4:56 AM, Neil Cafferkey <n.cafferkey@cs.ucc.ie> wrote:
> The INSTALL file says that docs are not built by default, but that's not my
> experience. "make all" results in the generation of several Perl man pages,
> e.g. "Git.3pm". Is it the case that the behaviour documented is not
> propagated to the perl subdir?
Yes, this is a bug in the Makefile glue code for the perl subdir.
> Also, setting --mandir=/dev/null still results in the pages being installed
> in their usual location (at least in combination with setting --prefix to
> avoid disturbing my production git installation).
Sounds like another bug, maybe, but I didn't have time to dig into
this one. When you run ./configure --mandir=* that does end up in
config.mak.autogen, which we source and it should override the
`mandir` in the Makefile, but maybe it doesn't work properly...
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