On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 01:22:27PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 22 December 2003 12:23, Dean Pullen wrote:
> ># /bin/sh ../config/mkinstalldirs /usr/bin/man/man8
>
> As root, move my script out of there, and do a make clean.

If the configuration is botched, "make distclean" is better,
since "make clean" does NOT clean up the files created by
"configure".  (Note that most of what Gene's script does is to
run "configure" with the right options.)

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 06:00:31PM -0000, Dean Pullen wrote:
> Ok I added --mandir=/usr/share/man to the configure params and it
> successfully 'make install'.

The --mandir option is provided to let you put the man pages in
an unusual place.  Be aware that using it to force them to go
where they should have gone anyway, is patching around the
underlying problem, not fixing it.

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