[DTrace-devel] [PATCH] Add examples directory to installed doc directory

Nick Alcock nick.alcock at oracle.com
Thu Sep 18 19:14:13 UTC 2025


On 18 Sep 2025, Elena Zannoni uttered the following:

> Make sure that the examples directory gets installed. 
> It will be installed under /usr/share/doc/dtrace/examples.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Elena Zannoni <elena.zannoni at oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock at oracle.com>

(Though this seems to be built on top of your previous commit -- I guess
they'll get squashed together or something?)

> diff --git a/Build b/Build
> index 1a66a824..220c9784 100644
> --- a/Build
> +++ b/Build
> @@ -7,12 +7,18 @@ install::
>  	mkdir -p $(INSTDOCDIR)/userguide/explanation
>  	mkdir -p $(INSTDOCDIR)/userguide/how-to
>  	mkdir -p $(INSTDOCDIR)/userguide/reference
> -	$(call describe-install-target,$(INSTDOCDIR),README INCOMPATIBILITIES NEWS doc/userguide)
> +	mkdir -p $(INSTDOCDIR)/examples/
> +	mkdir -p $(INSTDOCDIR)/examples/language_features

That first mkdir -p line is technically unnecessary (but harmless).

> +	$(call describe-install-target,$(INSTDOCDIR),README INCOMPATIBILITIES NEWS userguide examples)
>  	install -m 644 README INCOMPATIBILITIES NEWS $(INSTDOCDIR)
>  	install -m 644 doc/userguide/index.md $(INSTDOCDIR)/userguide
>  	install -m 644 doc/userguide/explanation/* $(INSTDOCDIR)/userguide/explanation
>  	install -m 644 doc/userguide/how-to/* $(INSTDOCDIR)/userguide/how-to
>  	install -m 644 doc/userguide/reference/* $(INSTDOCDIR)/userguide/reference
> +	install -m 755 examples/*.d $(INSTDOCDIR)/examples
> +	install -m 644 examples/README.md $(INSTDOCDIR)/examples
> +	install -m 755 examples/language_features/* $(INSTDOCDIR)/examples/language_features

... you want the files to be executable? I suppose they're .d scripts
starting with a hashbang, so that makes sense.

-- 
NULL && (void)



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