Re: man-page install (was Re: pg_dump new -n flag)

From: "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: man-page install (was Re: pg_dump new -n flag)
Date: 1998-10-05 14:44:01
Message-ID: 3618DB31.2EE13C26@alumni.caltech.edu
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> > I won't move the location of the man
> > sources, just change the makefiles.
> ... but as long as the man pages live under src/man, I think they
> ought to be installed by the src makefile. Cross-subtree installs are
> confusing.
> I'd vote for going all the way and moving the src/man subdirectory
> into the doc tree.

I agree, but would like to keep it this way for this release for three
reasons:

1) the src/ makefile is actually doing the install. So from src/ you can
do a

make install-man

but it is no longer part of "src/make install". The doc/ makefile simply
does the above make.

2) moving the files will (unfortunately) eliminate the cvs log
information (unless I do bad stuff with the RCS tree behind cvs, and I'm
not touching that :)

3) the next release should have man pages derived from sgml so it won't
be an issue.

- Tom

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