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Installation of man-files

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Joost van der Sluis

Hi all,

Currently 'make install' does only install the man-files of the binaries which are placed in the search-path. (lazarus-ide, rpmbuild and startlazarus)

Do we want to install the other man-files by default too? (lazres, lrstolfm,updatepofiles,svn2revisioninc)

Joost.

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Vincent Snijders
to Joost van der Sluis

2011/1/12 Joost van der Sluis :

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Hi all, Currently 'make install' does only install the man-files of the binaries which are placed in the search-path. (lazarus-ide, rpmbuild and startlazarus) Do we want to install the other man-files by default too? (lazres, lrstolfm,updatepofiles,svn2revisioninc)

I don't think so. Install only man files of the binaries that are installes seems a good rule. I guess the deb packages also install those other binaries.

Vincent

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Mattias Gaertner
to Joost van der Sluis: Currently 'make install' does only install the man-files of the binaries which are placed…

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Joost van der Sluis hat am 12. Januar 2011 um 11:49 geschrieben:

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Hi all, Currently 'make install' does only install the man-files of the binaries which are placed in the search-path. (lazarus-ide, rpmbuild and startlazarus) Do we want to install the other man-files by default too? (lazres, lrstolfm,updatepofiles,svn2revisioninc)

I think no, because:
- they are not in PATH
- updatepofiles, svn2revisioninc can clash with other packages
- the man pages do not contain more help than the standard -h parameter
- I hate those packages that install man pages for tools I don't have

If some packager installs the tools in PATH then the man pages should be installed too.

Mattias
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