Autotools套件放错了“ man”文件，导致安装失败

Question

In a software I have to tweak, the man file is located under doc/ along with a simple Makefile.am file:

man_MANS = software.1
EXTRA_DIST = $(man_MANS)

Upon installation, I expect make install to copy the manual under /usr/local/share/man/ , but the script - instead - will try to install the man under /usr/local/share/man/man1 - which does not exist - throwing an error and stopping the process.

I would expect a similar behavior if I assigned software.1 to man1_MANS, though.

What is going on ? How is this possible that automake does not create non-existing folders ?

Answer 1

man_MANS will try to figure out in which section to put the manual depending on the extension you gave it, so it is correct in this case that it would install into ${mandir}/man1 .

Since you say that MKDIR_P is empty in your output, try to ensure that AC_PROG_MKDIR_P is being called in your configure.ac (it should be automatically called by AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE but since you said it's old it might have some issues).