[GRASS-dev] GRASS Web site: compilation errors for G7

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Markus Neteler wrote:
>>>> * man: Indeed, also in my local compilation I don't have a man/
>>>> directory, to be removed from the tar command?
> Glynn:
>> > The manual pagers were moved from $GISBASE/man to $GISBASE/docs/man in
>> > r49908.
>>
>> Ok, main Makefile updated.
>
> Hi,
>
> sorry for the trouble, but I've just discovered that the man pages need
> to go back into $GISBASE because of the way that `manpath` works.

Ok - note that I only modified GRASS 7.
Perhaps we have to add it later rather than packaging an empty
directory.

> it searches $PATH and for each path dir, if ../man/ exists it is added
> to the manpath search list. Adding a symlink back there works, but seems
> unnecessarily redundant.
>
>
> GRASS65> manpath -d
> ...
>
> path directory /usr/local/src/grass/svn/grass65/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin is not in the config file
> but does have a ../man or man subdirectory
> adding /usr/local/src/grass/svn/grass65/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/man to manpath
>
> path directory /usr/local/src/grass/svn/grass65/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/scripts is not in the config file
> but does have a ../man or man subdirectory
> /usr/local/src/grass/svn/grass65/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/man is already in the manpath
>

Honestly, no idea about this...

Markus