Re: Git's configure script --mandir doesn't work

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Dec 5, 2014, 09:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20141205093619.GE32112@peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20141204232532.GB14036@SDF.ORG>

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):

  tar xzf git-2.2.0.tar.gz
  cd git-2.2.0
  ./configure --prefix=/tmp/foo --mandir=/tmp/bar
  make install-man

puts the manpages into /tmp/bar.

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?

-Peff