From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#59503: 28.2.50; cannot set --mandir when installing Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:54:48 +0200 Message-ID: <83a64hzsgn.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18128"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 59503@debbugs.gnu.org To: daanturo Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 23 14:55:25 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oxqDk-0004Xh-Cr for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2022 14:55:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oxqDQ-0003Q4-8c; Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:55:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oxqDP-0003PW-4f for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:55:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oxqDO-0006Ir-R2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:55:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oxqDO-000682-J0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:55:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 13:55:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 59503 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 59503-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B59503.166921167923488 (code B ref 59503); Wed, 23 Nov 2022 13:55:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 59503) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Nov 2022 13:54:39 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54197 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oxqD1-00066l-GF for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:54:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42366) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oxqCz-00066W-4U for 59503@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:54:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oxqCt-0006Fz-P2; Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:54:31 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=8mL1sY7i/SWd6UJtrD5ZM+Sbi635egJty7aloI47MVU=; b=QuEgYRwnSyzhhlxp577U MWIRo5xPQFBVAyyk7GeyVT+n2rm31lU0cVAAeyP9LdCfS0QrAQmnZ1RkCFIR2flJtU90db27IgxVg CcAGdnCKZSDJJ0TGW3z5IKD+XiXMTSU9x+XZlGoYuoahI+y8miXZ87fX8hZ90HMNqL00NqIoWl3ZW qxu+0sd3KmZDeW5EjjdFQHXvajTm/KQocW1kI8V6dTZvhEmlE12lIzKbRTn/vya+PjGDqsGaBCRhK XaULkRCEu7C7PxFvUcAm5sDAoKFHh0LU9bZsHRrgLrZjpHK+gTK+2427H8zySxCrqJV8NwJaU2KTG P5mfTNbxhdHm5g==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oxqCt-00026T-0K; Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:54:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from daanturo on Wed, 23 Nov 2022 12:11:55 +0700) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:248743 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 12:11:55 +0700 > From: 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 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.