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man pages go into wrong directory #2670

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olafhering opened this issue Sep 25, 2019 · 6 comments
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man pages go into wrong directory #2670

olafhering opened this issue Sep 25, 2019 · 6 comments

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@olafhering
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make install shold install the man pages into /usr/share/man.
Right now they go straight into /usr/man, and there seems to be no way to override this directory.
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ghost commented Sep 25, 2019

Indeed. We should add a --mandir option to dune install

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@olafhering do you want to try implementing this? it should be fairly short.

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It would be enough to have this via configure.ml. But then, if it exists there, it might be easy to have it also as a global knob at runtime. I will try it, yes.

rgrinberg added a commit to rgrinberg/opam-repository that referenced this issue Dec 13, 2019
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[new release] dune-build-info, dune, dune-configurator, dune-action-p…
7d276c0 
…lugin, dune-private-libs and dune-glob (2.1.0)

CHANGES:

- Attach cinaps stanza actions to both `@runtest` and `@cinaps` aliases
  (ocaml/dune#2831, @NathanReb)

- Add variables `%{lib-private...}` and `%{libexec-private...}` for finding
  build paths of files in public and private libraries within the same
  project. (ocaml/dune#2901, @snowleopard)

- Add `--mandir` option to `$ dune install`. This option allows to override the
  installation directory for man pages. (ocaml/dune#2915, fixes ocaml/dune#2670, @rgrinberg)

- Fix `dune --version`. The bootstrap didn't compute the version
  correctly. (ocaml/dune#2929, fixes ocaml/dune#2911, @diml)

- Do not open the log file in `dune clean`. (ocaml/dune#2965, fixes ocaml/dune#2964 and
  ocaml/dune#2921, @diml)

- Support passing two arguments to `=`, `<>`, ... operators in package
  dependencies so that we can have things such as `(<> :os win32)`
  (ocaml/dune#2965, @diml)
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rgrinberg added a commit to rgrinberg/opam-repository that referenced this issue Dec 21, 2019
@rgrinberg
[new release] dune-build-info, dune, dune-configurator, dune-action-p…
5b8ba00 
…lugin, dune-private-libs and dune-glob (2.1.0)

CHANGES:

- Attach cinaps stanza actions to both `@runtest` and `@cinaps` aliases
  (ocaml/dune#2831, @NathanReb)

- Add variables `%{lib-private...}` and `%{libexec-private...}` for finding
  build paths of files in public and private libraries within the same
  project. (ocaml/dune#2901, @snowleopard)

- Add `--mandir` option to `$ dune install`. This option allows to override the
  installation directory for man pages. (ocaml/dune#2915, fixes ocaml/dune#2670, @rgrinberg)

- Fix `dune --version`. The bootstrap didn't compute the version
  correctly. (ocaml/dune#2929, fixes ocaml/dune#2911, @diml)

- Do not open the log file in `dune clean`. (ocaml/dune#2965, fixes ocaml/dune#2964 and
  ocaml/dune#2921, @diml)

- Support passing two arguments to `=`, `<>`, ... operators in package
  dependencies so that we can have things such as `(<> :os win32)`
  (ocaml/dune#2965, @diml)
@rgrinberg rgrinberg mentioned this issue Dec 21, 2019
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toots commented Mar 30, 2021

I concur with this. This is particularly relevant because it is explicitly documented in the FHS here: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch04s11.html#usrsharemanManualPages

There is a similar issue with /usr/share/doc/<package> but this one is not referenced in the standard so it's less pressing.

@ejgallego ejgallego mentioned this issue Mar 31, 2021
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Wait, dune install --mandir already works, right?

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Yeah, not only that but it's also possible to configure the default dir when building dune. This was introduced in 2.1.0 as far as I can tell.

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