Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1034228AbdDTVus (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:50:48 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:47674 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1033464AbdDTVup (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:50:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:50:44 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: "Herton R. Krzesinski" Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: allow installing man pages to a user defined directory Message-ID: <20170420155044.0b87fc2d@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20170420185728.10465-1-herton@redhat.com> References: <20170420185728.10465-1-herton@redhat.com> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 820 Lines: 19 On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:57:28 -0300 "Herton R. Krzesinski" wrote: > Documentation/DocBook/Makefile hard codes the prefixed path to which you > can install the built man pages (/usr/local prefix). That's unfortunate > since the user may want to install to another prefix or location (for > example, a distribution packaging the man pages may want to install to a > random temporary location in the build process). > > Be flexible and allow the prefixed path to which we install man pages to be > changed with the INSTALL_MAN_PATH environment variable (and use the same > default as other similar variables like INSTALL_HDR_PATH). Applied, thanks. Of course, the DocBook-based man-page generation is fading away, and we haven't managed to put together a replacement quite yet. Soon, I hope... jon