[mpich-discuss] man mpich-3.0.4

[Jeff Hammond]

>> I struggled with this just the other day.  I could not get the build system to install the man pages despite many attempts.  I gave up and just did a manual install by copying the man subdirectory of the source into my install directory.
>
> Did you build the manpages?  They are not built by default in the git version.  In the release tarball, they should be available and installable to any location with --manpage=.

Why doesn't "make doc" or "make man" lead to the building of the man
pages?  The configure --help output clearly indicates that there is a
default path for the man pages already so I do not know why I need to
provide this to make it work.

Jeff
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