Bug 294894 – app-doc/howto-*: documentation installed outside /usr/share/doc/${PF}

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2009-11-27 20:01:27 UTC]

You're getting this bug because the package in summary installs its documentation (or at least part of it) outside the usual /usr/share/doc/${PF} directory.

First, please keep in mind that this bug might not be noticeable for -r0 ebuilds, but it might be for -r1 and later, since if the ebuild has same name and version of the package, for -r0 it might correspond properly.

To fix this, if the package uses autotools, recent version (autoconf 2.61+) have two ./configure switches: --docdir and --htmldir to decide where to put the documentation. Older versions might require you override docdir/htmldir or other custom variables during make install.

For non-autotooled build systems, good luck, since I cannot tell you how to achieve the proper results, the same holds true with totally broken buildsystems even when based on autotools.

Thanks,
Diego

[Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2009-12-01 12:59:32 UTC]

*** Bug 295104 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 2 Ryan Hill (RETIRED) 2010-01-01 07:42:09 UTC]

fixed in app-doc/tldp-howto.  i'll be removing all the howto-* packages in a bit.

[Comment 3 Ryan Hill (RETIRED) 2010-09-19 07:58:40 UTC]

Fixed.