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authorHerton R. Krzesinski <herton@redhat.com>2017-04-20 15:57:28 -0300
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2017-04-20 15:42:26 -0600
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Documentation: allow installing man pages to a user defined directory
Documentation/DocBook/Makefile hard codes the prefixed path to which you can install the built man pages (/usr/local prefix). That's unfortunate since the user may want to install to another prefix or location (for example, a distribution packaging the man pages may want to install to a random temporary location in the build process). Be flexible and allow the prefixed path to which we install man pages to be changed with the INSTALL_MAN_PATH environment variable (and use the same default as other similar variables like INSTALL_HDR_PATH). Signed-off-by: Herton R. Krzesinski <herton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/Makefile11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
index 13056d40e11b..85916f13d330 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
@@ -61,11 +61,14 @@ MAN := $(patsubst %.xml, %.9, $(BOOKS))
mandocs: $(MAN)
find $(obj)/man -name '*.9' | xargs gzip -nf
+# Default location for installed man pages
+export INSTALL_MAN_PATH = $(objtree)/usr
+
installmandocs: mandocs
- mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man9/
+ mkdir -p $(INSTALL_MAN_PATH)/man/man9/
find $(obj)/man -name '*.9.gz' -printf '%h %f\n' | \
sort -k 2 -k 1 | uniq -f 1 | sed -e 's: :/:' | \
- xargs install -m 644 -t /usr/local/man/man9/
+ xargs install -m 644 -t $(INSTALL_MAN_PATH)/man/man9/
# no-op for the DocBook toolchain
epubdocs:
@@ -237,7 +240,9 @@ dochelp:
@echo ' psdocs - Postscript'
@echo ' xmldocs - XML DocBook'
@echo ' mandocs - man pages'
- @echo ' installmandocs - install man pages generated by mandocs'
+ @echo ' installmandocs - install man pages generated by mandocs to INSTALL_MAN_PATH'; \
+ echo ' (default: $(INSTALL_MAN_PATH))'; \
+ echo ''
@echo ' cleandocs - clean all generated DocBook files'
@echo
@echo ' make DOCBOOKS="s1.xml s2.xml" [target] Generate only docs s1.xml s2.xml'