Re: [PATCH] Install man3 manpages to $PREFIX/share/man/man3 even for site installs

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 20, 2007, 00:42 UTC
Message-ID: <7vzm1r29df.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <11848491502417-git-send-email-madduck@madduck.net>

Randal, I cannot decide if this is the right thing to do, or better than what we currently do. Could you care to enlighten us please?

"martin f. krafft" <madduck@madduck.net> writes:

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> MakeMaker supports three installation modes: perl, site, and vendor. The first
> and third install manpages to $PREFIX/share/man, only site installs to
> $PREFIX/man. For consistency with the rest of git, which does not make the
> distinction and writes all manpages to $PREFIX/share/man, this change makes
> sure that perl does too, even when it's installed in site mode.
>
> Signed-off-by: martin f. krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
> ---
>  perl/Makefile.PL |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/perl/Makefile.PL b/perl/Makefile.PL
> index 4375161..6aecd89 100644
> --- a/perl/Makefile.PL
> +++ b/perl/Makefile.PL
> @@ -29,5 +29,6 @@ WriteMakefile(
>  	VERSION_FROM    => 'Git.pm',
>  	PM		=> \%pm,
>  	MAKEFILE	=> 'perl.mak',
> +	INSTALLSITEMAN3DIR => '$(SITEPREFIX)/share/man/man3',
>  	%extra
>  );
> -- 
> 1.5.3.rc2.19.gc4fba-dirty