[postgis-devel] manpages (was: PostGIS 3.3.0alpha1 released)

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 5/23/22 10:40, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> Speaking of which, how do you deal with installing those man pages
> in the correct directory in Debian, Bas ? Beacause I find installing
> in PostgreSQL man path is somewhat ill.

dh_installman does the right thing:

  https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/debhelper/dh_installman.1.en.html

Using the package control file:

 
https://salsa.debian.org/debian-gis-team/postgis/-/blob/master/debian/postgis.manpages

CMake has CMAKE_INSTALL_MANDIR which can be used to determine the base 
directory, see for example:

  https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/master/man/CMakeLists.txt

Or a custom procedure:

  https://github.com/osmcode/osmium-tool/blob/master/man/CMakeLists.txt

Autotools has its own magic variables:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Man-Pages.html

Kind Regards,

Bas

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