Re: Options to avoid docs generation/installation

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: May 21, 2017, 06:17 UTC
Message-ID: <CACBZZX4VjxfHBn6O6mWBh-DfAy9cHUxcnn-UfVHzCqm+2VZOiA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170521025604.GA8068@csmail.ucc.ie>

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 4:56 AM, Neil Cafferkey <n.cafferkey@cs.ucc.ie> wrote:

> The INSTALL file says that docs are not built by default, but that's not my
> experience. "make all" results in the generation of several Perl man pages,
> e.g. "Git.3pm". Is it the case that the behaviour documented is not
> propagated to the perl subdir?

Yes, this is a bug in the Makefile glue code for the perl subdir.

> Also, setting --mandir=/dev/null still results in the pages being installed
> in their usual location (at least in combination with setting --prefix to
> avoid disturbing my production git installation).

Sounds like another bug, maybe, but I didn't have time to dig into this one. When you run ./configure --mandir=* that does end up in config.mak.autogen, which we source and it should override the `mandir` in the Makefile, but maybe it doesn't work properly...