On Monday 22 December 2003 15:12, Eric Siegerman wrote:
>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.)

And in rechecking it, you'll note that to do a make clean requires the 
config.status and/or config.cache, which after doing the make clean 
are removed themselves, so it should be truely a from scratch 
re-start.

Also, and I forgot to note it, I have a changer.  If Dean doesn't have 
one, then that line defining the changer device should be removed.
But... Thats not going to cause this manpages problem.  One of the 
reasons I'm a (here we go again, the vi/emacs holy wars) vi/vim fan 
is the simple act of moving the cursor to that line, tapping 'dd' 
then ':wq'   The file is rewritten without that line.  Nothing else 
in that file will be touched, no automatic word wraps or anything 
else to 'pee in your cheerios'.

Your toast however, will land jelly side down according to a formula 
that includes the price of the rug.
But you all know that, so why am I prattling on?

Merry Christmas everybody!

>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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>It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer
>wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the
>drum kit around during songs.
>       - Patrick Lenneau

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