Who hates the perl build system? I do, I do. OK, so this is very strange and may not be necessary and others don't seem to have this issue, but...
When building perl in Ch. 6 of the LFS ALPHABETICAL-20051216, I kept getting the man pages installed in the root directory. This was very obnoxious, obviously. I traced it back to the fact that if nroff was not found (and it's not installed in Ch. 5), the build system makes the wonderful decision that man1dir= and man3dir= since it can't rebuild the man pages with groff. I can't tell you how long it took to figure this out since it appears the perl build system was written by a high school student. So, I moved groff up to before perl, and it fixed this. Here's snippets from the logs: [ Groff after perl ] System manual is in /usr/share/man/man1. Where do the main Perl5 manual pages (source) go? (~name ok) [none] You can have filenames longer than 14 characters. Where do the perl5 library man pages (source) go? (~name ok) [none] [ Groff before perl ] System manual is in /usr/share/man/man1. Where do the main Perl5 manual pages (source) go? (~name ok) [/usr/share/man/man1] What suffix should be used for the main Perl5 man pages? [1] You can have filenames longer than 14 characters. Where do the perl5 library man pages (source) go? (~name ok) [/usr/share/man/man3] Now, we could just add some mandir= type statements to configure.gnu, but moving up groff seems fine. This is the situation on current LFS and DIY as it is. What say the group? -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
