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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