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Install section 3 manpages to .../share/man for consistency

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MKmartin f. krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date
Aug 20, 2007, 07:23 UTC
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When an admin installs git site-wide, e.g. to /usr/local, perl's makemaker decides to use 'site' mode (as opposed to distro or user mode). For whatever reason, it then installs all perl-related manpages (those in section 3) to .../man, while the rest of git happily installs manpages to .../share/man.

In as such, this is different from the patch proposed in this thread:
  http://marc.info/?t=117862141100003&r=1&w=2

My patch should only ever affect site installs and does not cause installations to $HOME to go to $HOME/share/...

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Message 1 of 3 in “Install section 3 manpages to .../share/man for consistency”
  1. martin f. krafftAug 20, 2007
  2. Install man3 manpages to $PREFIX/share/man/man3 even for site installsmartin f. krafft, Aug 20, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 23, 2007

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