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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: daanturo <daanturo@gmail.com>
Cc: 59503@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59503: 28.2.50; cannot set --mandir when installing
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:54:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a64hzsgn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dbf25651-d75e-a7cb-5488-544af4b2907b@gmail.com> (message from daanturo on Wed, 23 Nov 2022 12:11:55 +0700)

> 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.






  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-23 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-23  5:11 bug#59503: 28.2.50; cannot set --mandir when installing daanturo
2022-11-23 13:54 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-11-23 15:20   ` daanturo
2022-11-23 16:45     ` Eli Zaretskii

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