[postgis-devel] manpages

[Sandro Santilli]

On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 11:02:42AM +0200, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 06:56:29AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Thanks for reporting this. I'm just afraid it's out of luck if that
> still works (bots are not checking after it).

I just tried passing --mandir=/usr/local/share/man/ but I don't find
any of PostGIS manpages under /usr/local/share/man/ after running
`make install`. Are you sure --mandir is ALL you use in pkgsrc ?

Is this against the master branch ?

--strk;