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#2488 HP-UX 11i looks for man pages in wrong place.

obsolete: 8.4.15
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2007-02-09
2003-09-24
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The installation puts the man pages in /usr/local/mann
with an extension of .n . HP-UX 11i is expecting a
/usr/local/mannew directory with .new extension. Tis a
minor headache to correct but just thought you should
know. Happens with tk as well.

Jeremy
jeremy@pernet.net

Discussion

  • Mo DeJong

    Mo DeJong - 2004-09-24

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    Is this the only man directory that is not right? At
    configure time
    one should be able to set --mandir, but that might not do
    everything
    you need.

    Here are the vars that may be of interest in Makefile.in:

    MAN_INSTALL_DIR = $(INSTALL_ROOT)$(mandir)
    MAN1_INSTALL_DIR = $(MAN_INSTALL_DIR)/man1
    MAN3_INSTALL_DIR = $(MAN_INSTALL_DIR)/man3
    MANN_INSTALL_DIR = $(MAN_INSTALL_DIR)/mann

     
  • Jeremy Gibson

    Jeremy Gibson - 2004-09-24

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    The only directory affected is the mann dir. 11i expects a
    mannew directory with all of the files in the directory to have
    a .new extension. We got around it by manually copying the
    files over to the mannew directory and then changed the
    extension from .n to .new. I think the mandir option would
    only affect the directory name and not the extensions. Am I
    correct on that?

     
  • Jeffrey Hobbs

    Jeffrey Hobbs - 2007-02-09

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    This is still actually an issue. Who knows why HP has to be different.

     
  • Jeffrey Hobbs

    Jeffrey Hobbs - 2007-02-09
    • milestone: 283282 --> obsolete: 8.4.15