[mpich-discuss] Man pages no longer installed

[Ken Raffenetti]

To clarify, there are pre-built manpages included in the release tarball for 3.1rc1. They are installed as part of 'make install'. Are you sure your MANPATH includes the location of your install?

Ken

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wesley Bland" <wbland at mcs.anl.gov>
> To: discuss at mpich.org
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:23:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [mpich-discuss] Man pages no longer installed
> 
> 
> I don’t know when the decision was made to turn off the manages by
> default, but it makes sense as they require a special tool that
> won’t be commonly installed. As the wiki page says, you have to
> install the “sowing” tool first before you can build the man pages.
> If we make that a requirement for the regular `make install`, that
> would be more a burden for most users.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Wesley
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 14, 2013, at 11:17 AM, Junchao Zhang < jczhang at mcs.anl.gov >
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hi, Markus,
> I installed my manpages according to instructions at
> https://wiki.mpich.org/mpich/index.php/Creating_MPICH_Manpages
> It needs a customized tool.
> But whether it is the reason mandoc is not installed by default, I
> would let more experienced mpich developers to answer you.
> 
> 
> 
> --Junchao Zhang
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Markus Geimer <
> m.geimer at fz-juelich.de > wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Is it intended that MPICH 3.1rc1 no longer installs man pages
> during 'make install'? This seems to be a regression compared
> to MPICH2.
> 
> Thanks,
> Markus
> 
> --
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