[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-446671 ] configure ignores --mandir
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Bugs item #446671, was opened at 2001-07-31 23:02
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Category: Build
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Bill Bumgarner (bbum)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: configure ignores --mandir
Initial Comment:
Actually, Makefile.in (in various places) ignores the
--mandir configuration option to configure.
As such, man pages are always installed under
$(PREFIX)/man regardless of what the user
specifies.
(I have noticed that an awful lot of GNU packages
have a similar bug. Yet, a few BSD derived
operating systems like man pages to be installed
in /usr/local/share/man/)
b.bum
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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2001-08-01 09:21
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The option is in configure within the 2.2 source, is a
standard part of autoconf, and is easy to support. A lot
of GNU programs are starting to do so.
As well, there are a handful of systems that have the
man pages split away from the binary/library/includes.
I'll try and generate/submit the appropriate patch.
[localhost:/tmp/Python-2.2a1] bbum% ./configure --help
Usage: configure [options] [host]
Options: [defaults in brackets after descriptions]
Configuration:
--cache-file=FILE cache test results in FILE
--help print this message
--no-create do not create output files
--quiet, --silent do not print `checking...' messages
--version print the version of autoconf that
created configure
Directory and file names:
--prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent
files in PREFIX
[/usr/local]
--exec-prefix=EPREFIX install architecture-dependent
files in EPREFIX
[same as prefix]
--bindir=DIR user executables in DIR [EPREFIX/
bin]
--sbindir=DIR system admin executables in DIR
[EPREFIX/sbin]
--libexecdir=DIR program executables in DIR
[EPREFIX/libexec]
--datadir=DIR read-only architecture-
independent data in DIR
[PREFIX/share]
--sysconfdir=DIR read-only single-machine data in
DIR [PREFIX/etc]
--sharedstatedir=DIR modifiable architecture-
independent data in DIR
[PREFIX/com]
--localstatedir=DIR modifiable single-machine data
in DIR [PREFIX/var]
--libdir=DIR object code libraries in DIR
[EPREFIX/lib]
--includedir=DIR C header files in DIR [PREFIX/
include]
--oldincludedir=DIR C header files for non-gcc in
DIR [/usr/include]
--infodir=DIR info documentation in DIR [PREFIX/
info]
--mandir=DIR man documentation in DIR
[PREFIX/man]
--srcdir=DIR find the sources in DIR [configure
dir or ..]
--program-prefix=PREFIX prepend PREFIX to installed
program names
--program-suffix=SUFFIX append SUFFIX to installed
program names
--program-transform-name=PROGRAM
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Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Date: 2001-08-01 06:30
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I'm not sure who's to blame. I've never even heard of
--mandir. Unclear whether it's a bug. If someone feels
like fixing this, let them go ahead, but I don't see this as
a priority unless you provide a good motivating example as
to why you would need this.
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