Man pages are installed to wrong location
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Description
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When looking into the packaging for Arch Linux I noticed that the man pages are installed to a hardcoded location:
On Linux distributions the usual directory for man pages is below /usr/share/man/, while the directory /usr/share/bcc/ is for any other additional architecture-independent data specific to bcc.
Is there a reason the files are being installed to this location? This way they can not be picked up by any man implementation.
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Research direction
Start with man/man8/CMakeLists.txt at the linked installation rule and inspect how the man-page destination is chosen. Compare it with the standard Linux man-page location under /usr/share/man/. Done means the BCC man pages install where man implementations can discover them; verify the packaging behavior after the change.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cmake, linux
- Domain
- build-system, documentation
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100