Bug 58620

Summary:	manpage install fix (needed for uclibc)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	SpanKY <vapier>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	embedded, ps.m
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	manpage.patch

Description SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-07-27 20:55:38 UTC

Peter S. Mazinger sent this before but i think people may have been hesitant to accept it because it included some hacks for NDBM (which has been fixed in other bug reports since)

as was described in the original e-mail:
if nroff is not found, the man-pages are not installed (onlx if man[13]dir and man[13]install-dir are installed at configure time. Also make install installs the man pages, so no need for the second make install-man (checked only for 5.8.4)

so find attached a patch to implement these changes (adjusted from his original patch)

i tested on a glibc and uclibc host against perl-5.8.4

would like it if this made it in soonish since on an uclibc system perl dumps all the manpages to the / :)

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-07-27 21:02:32 UTC

Created attachment 36295 [details, diff]
manpage.patch

Comment 2 solar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-23 20:32:41 UTC

rac you added this one right?

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-08-23 20:34:54 UTC

yes, 5.8.4-r1 and beyond has this fix

thanks rac :)