[DTrace-devel] [PATCH v2 06/14] configure: fix dreadful behaviour of MANDIR / --mandir

Nick Alcock nick.alcock at oracle.com
Mon Oct 28 21:17:55 UTC 2024


This should obviously refer to the top-level mandir, i.e. PREFIX/share/man,
not PREFIX/share/man/man8!  Literally no package ever does that, I don't
know what I was thinking...

Bug: https://github.com/oracle/dtrace-utils/issues/106
Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock at oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees at oracle.com>
---
 GNUmakefile | 2 +-
 cmd/Build   | 2 +-
 configure   | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/GNUmakefile b/GNUmakefile
index cbf27b6be111..d1e18bb1bbe6 100644
--- a/GNUmakefile
+++ b/GNUmakefile
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ INSTSYSTEMDPRESETDIR = $(DESTDIR)$(SYSTEMDPRESETDIR)
 INSTSYSTEMDUNITDIR = $(DESTDIR)$(SYSTEMDUNITDIR)
 DOCDIR = $(prefix)/share/doc/dtrace-$(VERSION)
 INSTDOCDIR = $(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR)
-MANDIR = $(prefix)/share/man/man8
+MANDIR = $(prefix)/share/man
 INSTMANDIR = $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)
 PKGCONFIGDIR = $(prefix)/share/pkgconfig
 INSTPKGCONFIGDIR = $(DESTDIR)$(PKGCONFIGDIR)
diff --git a/cmd/Build b/cmd/Build
index 68800fbeb5fc..38a538c1e3c9 100644
--- a/cmd/Build
+++ b/cmd/Build
@@ -55,4 +55,4 @@ install::
 	$(call describe-install-target,$(INSTSBINDIR),dtrace)
 	install -m 755 $(objdir)/dtrace $(INSTSBINDIR)
 	$(call describe-install-target,$(INSTMANDIR),dtrace.8)
-	install -m 644 $(dtrace_DIR)/dtrace.8 $(INSTMANDIR)
+	install -m 644 $(dtrace_DIR)/dtrace.8 $(INSTMANDIR)/man8
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 3237f9d23918..003c283d8568 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Installation paths:
 --bindir=PREFIX/sbin				Binary directory
 --sbindir=PREFIX/sbin				Alias for --bindir
 --includedir=PREFIX/include			#include directory
---mandir=PREFIX/share/man/man8			Manpage directory
+--mandir=PREFIX/share/man			Manpage directory
 --pkg-config-dir=PREFIX/share/pkgconfig		Pkg-config directory
 --udevdir=PREFIX/lib/udev/rules.d		udev rules directory
 --systemd-unit-dir=PREFIX/lib/systemd/system	systemd unit directory
-- 
2.46.0.278.g36e3a12567




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