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#3767 man page installs fail in some environments

Milestone: obsolete: 8.4.15

Status: open-fixed

Owner: Reinhard Max

Labels: 53. Configuration and Build Tools (560)

Priority: 8

Updated: 2010-11-09

Created: 2007-08-21

Creator: Tim Wallace

Private: No

If the user happens to have an environment variable 'S' set, then the manual page installation fails under 'make install'. I needed to 'unset S' to get my man pages. I haven't experienced this before (8.4.11 was last version used). Same exact thing happens with tk 8.4.15.

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Donal K. Fellows - 2007-08-21

priority: 5 --> 8

assigned_to: nobody --> hobbs
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Joe English - 2007-09-08

assigned_to: hobbs --> rmax
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Joe English - 2007-09-08

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Problem is in the "installManPage" shell script (see #996085), which uses shell variables "S", "Z", "SUFFIX" (and maybe a few others) but doesn't always initialize them.

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Reinhard Max - 2010-11-09

This has meanwhile been fixed in CVS for 8.5 and HEAD.

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Reinhard Max - 2010-11-09

status: open --> open-fixed
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