From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51822) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbQcD-0003Lf-U7 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 08:13:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbQcA-0003F6-LY for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 08:13:05 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:58056) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbQcA-0003Ey-HZ for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 08:13:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dbQcA-000781-D6 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 08:13:02 -0400 Subject: [bug#27856] [PATCH] gnu: erlang: Fix install-doc phase. Resent-Message-ID: From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) References: <20170728001051.1778-1-petermikkelsen10@gmail.com> <874ltwl1pn.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 14:12:00 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Peter Mikkelsen's message of "Fri, 28 Jul 2017 23:02:16 +0200") Message-ID: <87o9s3igrz.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Peter Mikkelsen Cc: 27856@debbugs.gnu.org Hi Peter, Peter Mikkelsen skribis: > Yes it does, and I found out that Erlang looks for man pages in /gnu/stor= e/.....erlang../lib/erlang/man > > This can be verified by the output of running "erl -man -w" > > You are right it seems a bit odd, but to my understanding that is just ho= w it is :) Indeed, odd, since /lib is for architecture-dependent bits. How difficult would it be to patch =E2=80=98erl -man=E2=80=99 to look for m= an pages in /share/man? I wouldn=E2=80=99t be surprised if other distros like Debian already have a patch doing this. WDYT? Ludo=E2=80=99.