How To: installing the man page using a makefile.

BW-userx · 09-15-2017, 10:27 AM

I got it to install, it is in

Code:

/usr/local/share/man/man1                                       
mh5000.1

But it does not work like that. The real ones are in /usr/man/man1/ and in zip form. .1.gz

the ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/ma...r/make_14.html page says,

Quote:

`mandir'

The top-level directory for installing the man pages (if any) for this package.
It will normally be `/usr/local/man', but you should write it as `$(prefix)/man'.
(If you are using Autoconf, write it as `@mandir@'.)

The makefile I am using uses man_dir so changing my makefile from , to this.

Code:

//config.mk
PREFIX ?= /usr/local
# Directories for manuals, executables, docs, data, etc.
main_dir = ${DESTDIR}${PREFIX}

//from this:
#man_dir = ${main_dir}/share/man
// to this:
man_dir = /usr/man  

// in Makefile I added gzip the man file then copy it over 

install:install-man install-bin

//from this: where it puts it in the /usr/local/share/man/man1
// which is the only man page in there is mine. so I do not know
// why that doc says to put anything man page there at all. 

install-man:
	@echo installing manuals to ${man_dir}
	@mkdir -p ${man_dir}/man1
	@cp man/mh5000.1 ${man_dir}/man1
	@chmod 644 ${man_dir}/man1/mh5000.1


// to this
install-man:
	@echo installing manuals to ${man_dir}
	@mkdir -p ${man_dir}/man1
	@gzip man/mh5000.1 <----- here
	@cp man/mh5000.1.gz ${man_dir}/man1 <-- here
	@chmod 644 ${man_dir}/man1/mh5000.1.gz <- here

that works on my Slackware system, but will it work on the rest of the Linux worlds systems?

(this is just a copy of another programs make file and config.mk with the program name and other changes made to reflect mine so I do not know why theirs installed their man page where it is suppose to go and mine did not without having to make them changes to make it do so. )

smallpond · 09-16-2017, 07:44 AM

You could have a configure step to set directory paths using some tool like automake.

BW-userx · 09-16-2017, 08:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smallpond

You could have a configure step to set directory paths using some tool like automake.

that is for configure to be added is it not?

Code:

 > automake
automake: error: 'configure.ac' is required

requires me to have to write another file to get that to work. I don't think a configure file is needed. make works fine here.

I just do not see the way behind this makefile, it installs properly with the app I got it from and it is not that hard to figure out what to leave in and what to take out.

yet it is not installing in the same directories as it did using the same patten or method of telling it where to install. That part was left untouched. still it installed it elsewhere. not into ../local/man but into local/share/man, where their isn't any man dir in there.

I'll be reading more up on it and testing it when I get time to. See if I can find the snag because there really isn't that much added to the makefile to do.

I was just wondering if I left it as is it'd still work on other systems.