[postgis-users] make install problem in v. 1.4.0 as well as in 1.4.1.SVN

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Peter Sarkoci wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> trying to make a slackbuild script for Slackware 13.0 I encountered a problem.
> 
> * Short description: "make install" does not copy the man pages into
> the destination directory. This applies to postgis 1.4.0 as well as to
> 1.4.1.SVN trunk.
> 
> * Long description: I do the following (step by step):
> 
> 1a) configure --prefix=/usr
> which runs without any problem, just complaining it is not able to
> find any XSL-template of the docbook system. Having on mind this could
> be the reason why, later on, make gives up to do anything with man
> pages I tried also
> 
> 1b) configure --prefix=/usr
> --with-xsldir=/usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.75.1
> in which case configure runs without complaints.
> 
> 2) make
> runs without any problem
> 
> 3) make install DESTDIR=/tmp/SBo/package-postgis
> runs also without complaints, but in the end, there are no man pages
> in the sub-directories of $(DESTDIR). Moreover, during both runs of
> "make" the directory with documentation is _never_ entered.
> 
> * Now the question: is it my mistake, an intentional behavior or a
> bug? It is not a big problem anyway, within the slackbuild script I
> can fix the problem easily. On the other hand, it could turn out that
> such a fix is not the kosher way to go.
> 
> Thanks
> Peter

Hi Peter,

The short version of this is that I think due to changes being made at 
the time, it was felt that due to the large number of dependencies 
required for the documentation then it should remain a separate target.

However, a manual "make install" in the docs/ directory should attempt 
to put things in the right place for you - if it doesn't, then please 
let us know.


ATB,

Mark.

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