"port" manpage doesn't follow mandir setting at times

[dhaines@…]

Given that you have an existing directory, here "/test", with a "man" directory therein, i.e. /test/man:

run ./configure --prefix=/test; make; sudo make install

The "port" manpage (port.1) is not located as expected as per ./configure --help, i.e. /test/man/man1/ port.1, rather it is at /test/share/man/man1/port.1

I'm pretty sure it shouldn't do that. I can understand not wanting to overwrite existing files, but there's no reason it shouldn't create a directory structure around existing manpages.

[mww@…]

If your problem is that port puts its manpages into ${prefix}/share/man instead of ${prefix}/man: this is not a bug; please see porthier(7) for documentation of darwinports filesystem layout.

If I misunderstood you, please reactivate this bug with a clearer description of the problem.

[dhaines@…]

Fair enough, then the ./configure --help should be changed to reflect that. It currently says that the default is PREFIX/man, with PREFIX defaulting to /opt/local.

[pguyot (Paul Guyot)]

Actually, we use autoconf and the help message comes from there. I haven't found any way to specify another path in the help message for the default mandir.

Plus we simply ignore --mandir option and we put the man page in $(prefix)/share/man/man1/.

[blb@…]

As Paul mentions, the path is statically defined in the auto* tools files, so we'll just have to live with it.