Re: [gentoo-dev] doman problems

[Brett I. Holcomb]

I'm not sure if I'm getting more confused or figuring this out <G>.

When make install is run for the package it puts the man files (blah.1, 
etc.) in ${D}/usr/lib/${PN}/man/man1 and the man 5 files in man5.

The ebuild first used doman to process the files.  This appeared to do 
nothing.  The compressed files did not show up in 
${D}/usr/share/man/manx nor anywhere else.

I then used prepallman.  However, it appears that the files have to be 
in the ${D}/usr/share/man subdirectories and then it will compress them

Going through the man 5 ebuild page again it appears that doman needs to 
have the DESTDIR set with into dir.  I'm not doing that so I'll try it.

However, I have a question about where man pages on Gentoo.  They appear 
to be installed to /usr/share/man/manx.   However, /usr/man is linked to 
/usr/share/man.  Is this done for programs who expect man pages to be in 
/usr/man?

Thanks.



Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 February 2004 09:16 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>
>>What am I doing wrong?
>
>
> doman is for stuff outside of ${D} usually
>
> since the manpages are already in /usr/share/man/ use `prepallman`
> -mike

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