From: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Pierre Labastie <pierre.labastie@neuf.fr>,
linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: installing man-pages from source
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 21:28:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <06f3e74b-8469-7039-82e2-b5afe89794aa@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a94037d5-b30b-897a-eac8-879c834914f8@kernel.org>
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On 10/18/22 21:22, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Pierre,
>
> We discovered a bug about using install(1) very recently in a discussion
> in NGINX Unit:
>
> <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/>
>
> I forgot to apply this fix before releasing man-pages-6.01. :(
> I'm interested in knowing if it's important for you and if you'd like
> any action from me. I guess it's especially important to linuxfromscratch.
Never mind. I was so stupid :)
The bug was there because in NGINX the build system creates the
directories unconditionally, while in the man-pages we create them only
if they don't exist.
So, not a bug.
Cheers,
Alex
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