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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Man-pages for KDE-programs?
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2003-12-09 20:24:13
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On Tuesday 09 December 2003 19:34, Joachim Eibl wrote:
> Am Montag, 8. Dezember 2003 20:19 schrieb Nicolas Goutte:
> > On Monday 08 December 2003 19:16, Joachim Eibl wrote:
> > > How should I mention a man-page in Makefile.am (if that's the right
> > > place) and where should it go in the repository?
> >
> > For now, most man pages for KDE programs are Debian-only. So you might
> > store it in a "debian" subdirectory and not install it. That is the easy
> > way.
> >
> > However if you want the full way, it should be installed where the
> > variable mandir points to.
> >
> > So the code for Makefile.am should be something like:
> >
> > man1_DATA=yourmanfile.1
> > man1dir=$(mandir)/1
>
> Thanks. I tried the code above, but it didn't work directly. But then I
> found this source of information:
> http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_38.html#SEC38
> Finally I tried this:
> man1_MANS=kdiff3.1

Thank you for the fixed code.

>
> And it installs nicely into $(prefix)/man/man1/ but it doesn't work out of
> the box, because my prefix /opt/kde3 is not in the MANPATH. But it works
> after export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/opt/kde3/man
>
> Is the MANPATH something that KDE can influence, or is this
> distibution-specific? (I'm using Suse 9.0 and the default MANPATH was
> /usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/gnome/man.
> Only KDE is missing :-( )

Some installation tutorials like the one of KDE Women does explain that the 
MANPATH has to be set. However as KDE had no man pages, the man path is 
mostly not set.

When KDE will have more man pages, it will then perhaps be installed by 
default.

Now that we known how it works, we would need volunteers (for KDE 3.3) to move 
the man pages out of the Debian directories, :-)

>
> Cheers,
> Joachim

Have a nice day!

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