[Scons-users] Manpages are not installed in 4.8.0

[Bill Deegan]

Ryan if you are on our discord server or decide to join us there, we do
maintain a separate channel for distribution package maintainers .

Regardless, thanks for keeping the macports package up to date.
(I'm a macport'ian too)


On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 8:48 PM Ryan Carsten Schmidt <scons at ryandesign.com>
wrote:

> On Jul 17, 2024, at 10:35, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> >
> > "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
>
>
>
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