Bug 114503 – x11-apps/xinit-0.99.4 installs manpages in "${ROOT}"

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Georgi Georgiev 2005-12-04 22:53:46 UTC]

Something changed in xinit-0.99.4 and it is now looking for a APP_MAN_DIR
variable . This variable (is "macro" the proper term?) is handled by aclocal.m4
that is distributed with the package, but all the libtoolization overwrites
aclocal.m4 with the one on the system -- /usr/share/libtool/libltdl/aclocal.m4.
And the final file knows nothing about APP_MAN... so the man pages get stuffed
in $(APP_MAN_DIR)/, which is "/".

[Comment 1 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2005-12-05 09:14:57 UTC]

Looks like Xcursor has this problem too, otherwise we could drop the
libtoolization from just apps and be done with it.  I wonder if it's an autotool
oops upstream...

I won't have time to look at this for awhile.  A patch from anyone with a sane
fix would be appreciated.

[Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-12-05 11:49:36 UTC]

Every app we run autoreconf on will be broken in the same way.

[Comment 3 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-12-05 12:10:04 UTC]

Do you have the latest util-macros installed? Which version do you have?

[Comment 4 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2005-12-05 12:28:00 UTC]

Aha, you're right, that's the problem...

[Comment 5 Georgi Georgiev 2005-12-05 18:19:29 UTC]

Well, the new release of x11-misc/util-macros (referring to 0.99.2) fixed the
problem in this bug. Manpages are properly installed in /usr/share/man1, etc.

I am now getting collisions on /usr/share/man/man4/mouse.4.gz which is installed
by both man-pages and xf86-input-mouse, though.

[Comment 6 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-12-05 18:22:27 UTC]

There's another bug open for that -- bug #29541.

I've updated the eclass's util-macros dep to fix this.