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

3 messages from 2007-08-20 to 2007-08-23. Participants: martin f. krafft, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/9585

## martin f. krafft, 2007-08-20 07:23

Subject: Install section 3 manpages to .../share/man for consistency
Message-ID: <11875945951398-git-send-email-madduck@madduck.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/11875945951398-git-send-email-madduck%40madduck.net

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When an admin installs git site-wide, e.g. to /usr/local, perl's makemaker
decides to use 'site' mode (as opposed to distro or user mode). For whatever
reason, it then installs all perl-related manpages (those in section 3) to
.../man, while the rest of git happily installs manpages to .../share/man.

In as such, this is different from the patch proposed in this thread:
  http://marc.info/?t=117862141100003&r=1&w=2

My patch should only ever affect site installs and does not cause
installations to $HOME to go to $HOME/share/...

```

## martin f. krafft, 2007-08-20 07:23

Subject: [PATCH] Install man3 manpages to $PREFIX/share/man/man3 even for site installs
Message-ID: <11875945952624-git-send-email-madduck@madduck.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/11875945952624-git-send-email-madduck%40madduck.net
In-Reply-To: <11875945951398-git-send-email-madduck@madduck.net>

```
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.rc5.40.g2f82

```

## Junio C Hamano, 2007-08-23 08:11

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Install man3 manpages to $PREFIX/share/man/man3 even for site installs
Message-ID: <7vbqcyvfet.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vbqcyvfet.fsf%40gitster.siamese.dyndns.org
In-Reply-To: <11875945952624-git-send-email-madduck@madduck.net>

```
Sorry for keeping you waiting for quite a while.  I've had a
chance to test building an RPM tonight, and this does not seem
to affect the output (the perl manpage is already installed in
/usr/share/man/man3), so I'd say this is probably safe to
apply.

For people who do private installs, the path is changed from
$prefix/man/man3/ to $prefix/share/man/man3 (where $prefix is
typically set to $HOME), but all the other manual pages are
installed in $prefix/share/man/man[1-7] anyway, so this change
cannot hurt.

```