Re: Git's configure script --mandir doesn't work
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:41:50PM -0700, Stephen Fisher wrote: > I'm executing ./configure --mandir=/usr/local/man --disable-pthreads > then gmake and gmake install. I'm using gmake (GNU make) because I get > Makefile errors with the regular BSD make, but that's another issue. You have to build git with GNU make; there are several GNU-isms in the Makefile. > I'm disabling pthreads because there is a linking error for undefined > references to a few functions (I probably need to pass -lpthread in > LDFLAGS, but haven't tried that yet). We should link against -lpthread automatically unless pthreads are disabled. So that may be an issue worth investigating. > I noticed text files in Documentation/ that look like the content of man > pages, and when I run gmake in that directory, I get an error about > asciidoc missing to make an HTML file. Is asciidoc required for the man > pages as well? Yes, you need asciidoc to build the manpages. However, there is a "make quick-install-man" target which will install pre-formatted manpages. You'll need to: git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git-manpages.git next to your git.git clone. If you are installing from tarballs, I think there are manpage tarballs on kernel.org, as well. > I don't see any files that appear to be man page format > other than in perl/blib/man3 and those are installed (but not under the > mandir prefix, rather the default /usr/local/share/man prefix). It sounds like the manpage install bailed due to asciidoc failing. So the remaining bug is that the perl Makefile does not respect $(mandir). That does not surprise me too much. We use perl's MakeMaker to build that Makefile, and it looks like we just pass in the prefix, not individual paths. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Git's configure script --mandir doesn't work
On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 04:36:20AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 04:25:32PM -0700, Stephen Fisher wrote: > > > I'm installing Git 2.2.0 from source distribution on NetBSD 6.1.5 > > (amd64) and when I specify --mandir=/usr/local/man, it still > > installs man pages in the default /usr/local/share/man directory. > > Is there a fix available for this? > > It works fine for me here (Debian): > Can you elaborate on the commands you're running? After running the > configure script, can you confirm that "mandir" is set appropriately > in config.mak.autogen? Thanks for your reply and sorry for my delay in responding. I'm executing ./configure --mandir=/usr/local/man --disable-pthreads then gmake and gmake install. I'm using gmake (GNU make) because I get Makefile errors with the regular BSD make, but that's another issue. I'm disabling pthreads because there is a linking error for undefined references to a few functions (I probably need to pass -lpthread in LDFLAGS, but haven't tried that yet). mandir is properly set in config.mak.autogen. When I set prefix to /tmp/foo and mandir to /tmp/bar like your example, it installs things into /tmp/foo, but /tmp/bar isn't even created. I noticed text files in Documentation/ that look like the content of man pages, and when I run gmake in that directory, I get an error about asciidoc missing to make an HTML file. Is asciidoc required for the man pages as well? I don't see any files that appear to be man page format other than in perl/blib/man3 and those are installed (but not under the mandir prefix, rather the default /usr/local/share/man prefix). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Git's configure script --mandir doesn't work
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 04:25:32PM -0700, Stephen Fisher wrote: > I'm installing Git 2.2.0 from source distribution on NetBSD 6.1.5 > (amd64) and when I specify --mandir=/usr/local/man, it still installs > man pages in the default /usr/local/share/man directory. Is there a fix > available for this? It works fine for me here (Debian): tar xzf git-2.2.0.tar.gz cd git-2.2.0 ./configure --prefix=/tmp/foo --mandir=/tmp/bar make install-man puts the manpages into /tmp/bar. Can you elaborate on the commands you're running? After running the configure script, can you confirm that "mandir" is set appropriately in config.mak.autogen? -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
