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On Friday 17 January 2003 12:02 pm, Bret Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 10:40, Bret Hughes wrote:
> > Brand new 7.3 install with all updates:
> >
> > I am building spamassassin from the src rpm and it fails 'cause the
> > man pages are not in the right place.
> >
> > the build says
> >
> > RPM build errors:
> > File not found by glob:
> > /var/tmp/spamassassin-root/usr/share/man/man1/*
> > File not found by glob:
> > /var/tmp/spamassassin-root/usr/share/man/man3/*
> >
> > well sure enough the man pages are in
> > /var/tmp/spamassassin-root/usr/man/man3/*
> >
> > not in share.
> >
> > I also built fprot and I noticed that the man pages were put int
> > /usr/man instead of /usr/share/man
> >
> > so I wondered how does that happen? Digging around a bit in the spec
> > file I noticed that _man is referenced and _man in
> > /usr/lib/rpm/macros is defined as /usr/man.
> >
> > aha I says. I am going to change it to usr/share/man and I suspect
> > that it will work but the question is why is this value set this way.
> > Is it indeed an error or should it be set somewhere else?
Can you post the specfile, as well as the output of:
$ rpm --showrc | grep _mandir
On a 7.3 system, I have:
_mandir %{_prefix}/share/man
On 8.0, it's
_mandir /usr/share/man
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