[Scons-users] Manpages are not installed in 4.8.0

[Ryan Carsten Schmidt]

On Jul 17, 2024, at 10:35, Mats Wichmann wrote:
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> "What we do in arch is just install the files manually in these situations, "

Yes that's what I've ended up doing.

In scons 3.1.2 manpages were installed into the man/man1 subdirectory of the python prefix. In MacPorts we patched that to install to share/man/man1 and then we symlinked the manpages into the system share/man/man1 directory.

When we updated from 3.1.2 to 4.3.0 that broke. Manpages were then installed into the root of the python prefix. We adapted to moving the manpages back to the share/man/man1 subdirectory:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/62a982aead24fa8767b92f303de737a7ea09ed3c

And now in 4.8.0 the manpages don't get installed at all, so I've adapted further to installing the manpages to the share/man/man1 subdirectory of the python prefix first:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/e44000dea2ab887d3b041136a11582b34abc9608