>I did > > configure > make > make check > make install > >Therefore, accepting all the defaults. > >Than I did 'man scan' and got 'No manual entry for scan'.
Ah, okay, ... I misunderstood you because you mentioned a link in 'etc' and I didn't understand why you would put a link in there. David Levine already gave you an answer, but let me expand on it a bit. Keeping with historical practice, nmh uses /usr/local/nmh as the default installation prefix (the default installation prefix for Autoconf is just /usr/local). Everything gets installed underneath that using default GNU pathnames, so (for example) man pages end up getting installed in $(prefix)/share/man, which means that man pages by default end up in /usr/local/nmh/share/man. AFAICT it's been that way since the Autoconf-ization of nmh (which goes back to 1998). I am reluctant to change this or add a new symlink as that would mess up the reasonably standardized directory structure that currently exists, and it's easy to solve - either adjust your man search path (via MANPATH or a man configuration file) or change the man page location via the --mandir configure option. It does bring to my mind to ask why we're still using /usr/local/nmh; AFACT when nmh is installed via packaging systems they install all of the commands in the regular directories and not a special nmh directory. But I don't have strong feelings either way, so unless others are itching to change it probably /usr/local/nmh will stay the default. --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
