Re: Specifying man dir in installation

Andrew -

> On 5/28/15 9:27 PM, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > Andrew Janke wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, A-A-P developers,
> >>
> >> I have a small bug report for the Aap installation process.
> >>
> >> As of 1.093, Aap's installation unconditionally puts its man pages in
> >> man/ directly under $PREFIX. From main.aap:
> >>
> >>           mandir = $PREFIX/man/man1
> >>
> >> But some platforms, including OS X, have man under $PREFIX/share/man,
> >> even when installing to /usr/local.
> >>
> >> Could we get an option in the Aap installation formula to allow users to
> >> specify the location of the man directory underneath $PREFIX?
> > I am no longer actively maintaining Aap.  But if someone can make a
> > patch for this, I could include it.
> >
> Great. Here's a patch. It just adds a MANSUBDIR variable that lets you 
> relocate the `man` dir underneath prefix. It defaults to the current 
> behavior of using $PREFIX/man.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew
> 
> diff --git a/main.aap b/main.aap
> index 9bc4be3..7655e33 100755
> --- a/main.aap
> +++ b/main.aap
> @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ test all: testall
>   # Install all docs by default.
>   FULLDOCS ?= yes
> 
> +# Location underneath PREFIX for man pages
> +MANSUBDIR ?= man
> 
>   fetch:
>       @if not os.path.exists("_no.CVS"):
> @@ -53,7 +55,7 @@ install:
>          docdir = $dir/doc
>          htmldocdir = $docdir$?HTMLDIR
>          bindir = $PREFIX/bin
> -       mandir = $PREFIX/man/man1
> +       mandir = $PREFIX/$MANSUBDIR/man1
>          sharedocdir = $PREFIX/share/doc
>          sharedocdiraap = $sharedocdir/aap
>          sharehtmldocdir = $sharedocdiraap$?HTMLDIR

Thanks.  I also updated the "mandir" for uninstall.

I have created Aap version 1.094.  It's been a long time since I
uploaded a new release, but it seemed to work OK.  Please verify if you
can install 1.094 properly.

- Bram

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