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patchInstall man3 manpages to $PREFIX/share/man/man3 even for site installs

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

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3 messages between Jul 19, 2007 and Jul 20, 2007. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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martin f. krafft· Jul 19, 2007, 12:45 UTC · lore

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(-)

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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

Junio C Hamano· Jul 20, 2007, 00:42 UTC · re: martin f. krafft · lore

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

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

Randal L. Schwartz· Jul 20, 2007, 00:46 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

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

>>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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

I'll have to research it. On *every single* major release of Perl, and even some of the minor ones, the rules for what Makefile.PL does have changed. It's really maddening.

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