On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 4:56 AM, Neil Cafferkey <[email protected]> wrote: > The INSTALL file says that docs are not built by default, but that's not my > experience. "make all" results in the generation of several Perl man pages, > e.g. "Git.3pm". Is it the case that the behaviour documented is not > propagated to the perl subdir?
Yes, this is a bug in the Makefile glue code for the perl subdir. > Also, setting --mandir=/dev/null still results in the pages being installed > in their usual location (at least in combination with setting --prefix to > avoid disturbing my production git installation). Sounds like another bug, maybe, but I didn't have time to dig into this one. When you run ./configure --mandir=* that does end up in config.mak.autogen, which we source and it should override the `mandir` in the Makefile, but maybe it doesn't work properly...
