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

From: Stephen Fisher <sfisher@sdf.org>
Date: Dec 10, 2014, 19:41 UTC
Message-ID: <20141210194150.GA28190@SDF.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <20141205093619.GE32112@peff.net>

On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 04:36:20AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

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> 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):

> 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?

Thanks for your reply and sorry for my delay in responding.

I'm executing ./configure --mandir=/usr/local/man --disable-pthreads then gmake and gmake install. I'm using gmake (GNU make) because I get Makefile errors with the regular BSD make, but that's another issue. I'm disabling pthreads because there is a linking error for undefined references to a few functions (I probably need to pass -lpthread in LDFLAGS, but haven't tried that yet).

mandir is properly set in config.mak.autogen.

When I set prefix to /tmp/foo and mandir to /tmp/bar like your example, it installs things into /tmp/foo, but /tmp/bar isn't even created.

I noticed text files in Documentation/ that look like the content of man pages, and when I run gmake in that directory, I get an error about asciidoc missing to make an HTML file. Is asciidoc required for the man pages as well? I don't see any files that appear to be man page format other than in perl/blib/man3 and those are installed (but not under the mandir prefix, rather the default /usr/local/share/man prefix).