bug#59503: 28.2.50; cannot set --mandir when installing

bug#59503: 28.2.50; cannot set --mandir when installing

[daanturo]

Despite having set --prefix and/or --mandir to a writable directory in
my $HOME, `make install` always throws me this:

/usr/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/share/man/man1’: Permission denied

Currently on commit 0636e106

Configure flags:

./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt/emacs-28.2.50
--program-transform-name='s/\(ctags\)/\1.emacs/' --with-json
--with-libsystemd --with-modules --with-native-compilation
--with-sound=alsa --without-compress-install

-- 
Daanturo.

bug#59503: 28.2.50; cannot set --mandir when installing

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 12:11:55 +0700
> From: daanturo <daanturo@gmail.com>
> 
> Despite having set --prefix and/or --mandir to a writable directory in
> my $HOME, `make install` always throws me this:
> 
> /usr/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/share/man/man1’: Permission denied

Please show the complete Makefile from the top-level directory of the tree
where you built Emacs.

AFAICT, the command to create that directory is

	umask 022; ${MKDIR_P} "$(DESTDIR)${man1dir}"

and ${man1dir} is determined as follows:

  datarootdir=${prefix}/share
  mandir=${datarootdir}/man
  man1dir=$(mandir)/man1

So if you set prefix to some directory, man pages should be installed in the
share/man/man1 subdirectory of that directory, not in
/usr/local/share/man/man1.  Something's amiss here.

bug#59503: 28.2.50; cannot set --mandir when installing

[daanturo]

Thank you. Turns out it wasn't any bug but my mistake for running `make
extraclean` after `./configure` but before `make install`.

Please close this bug (I don't think bug reporters can do that, but if that's
possible, can you show me the docs?).

-- 
Daanturo.

bug#59503: 28.2.50; cannot set --mandir when installing

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 22:20:11 +0700
> Cc: 59503@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: daanturo <daanturo@gmail.com>
> 
> Thank you. Turns out it wasn't any bug but my mistake for running `make
> extraclean` after `./configure` but before `make install`.
> 
> Please close this bug

Done.

> (I don't think bug reporters can do that, but if that's possible, can you
> show me the docs?).

You _can_ close bugs, just send message to NNNN-done@debbugs.gnu.org, where
NNNN is the bug number.  Like I did here.

Thanks.