[postgis-devel] manpages

[Greg Troxel]

Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> writes:

> I do know how to install man pages in the right place (honouring
> --prefix and --mandir) was just wondering why we never got a complain
> from packagers about our NOT doing that. Now I know Debian has its
> own separate configuration for it.

pkgsrc puts man pages in e.g. /usr/pkg/man/man1/foo.1 and we pass
--mandir to GNU autoconf.   So I think the short answer to your question
is that if there's a reaonable knob (configure arg, env var) to say
where the mandir is, a packager calls that a win and doesn't complain.
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