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bug#59503: 28.2.50; cannot set --mandir when installing
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#59503: 28.2.50; cannot set --mandir when installing |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:54:48 +0200 |
> 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.