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bug #21194: Gnash man page installed to wrong directory

Submitted by:  Benjamin Wolsey <bwy>
Submitted on:  Sun 30 Sep 2007 08:46:02 AM UTC  
 
Category: documentationSeverity: 3 - Normal
Release: NoneStatus: Fixed
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: None
Open/Closed: Closed

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Sun 17 Feb 2008 04:40:14 PM UTC, comment #5:

I believe I fixed this yesterday, as I've been rewriting doc/C/Makefile.am to support building binary packages.

Rob Savoye <rsavoye>
Project Administrator
Sun 17 Feb 2008 08:43:17 AM UTC, comment #4:

Not sure this was ever a bug. It works for me now.

Benjamin Wolsey <bwy>
Project Member
Tue 02 Oct 2007 04:25:13 PM UTC, comment #3:

I guess the problem is that GNU doesn't recognize manual pages as "standard", or can you find mention of their install path in the GNU coding standards ? (I don't like info files much, btw :)

Sandro Santilli <strk>
Project Member
Tue 02 Oct 2007 04:06:31 PM UTC, comment #2:

Setting the directory manually works fine - the point is that man pages should be installed to a standard directory, and it seems to me (though I may be wrong) that /usr/local/share/man isn't one of them. In fact, only makeswf and gnash are in there, while the rest of my local man pages install to /usr/local/man.

Benjamin Wolsey <bwy>
Project Member
Tue 02 Oct 2007 12:44:37 PM UTC, comment #1:

You should be able to change that using --datadir or similar, check ./configure --help.

Sandro Santilli <strk>
Project Member
Sun 30 Sep 2007 08:46:02 AM UTC, original submission:

The gnash man page is installed in:

/usr/local/share/man/man1

but 'man' doesn't look there on my distro. It works if it's installed to:

/usr/local/man/man1

I've no idea whether it works on other distros as it is, but from my /etc/man.config it doesn't look like it ought to:

# Every automatically generated MANPATH includes these fields
#
MANPATH /usr/share/man
MANPATH /usr/X11R6/man
MANPATH /usr/local/man
MANPATH /usr/kerberos/man
MANPATH /usr/man

The file is also well out of date.

Benjamin Wolsey <bwy>
Project Member

 

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