Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 11:54:48 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Chess Griffin <chess.griffin@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating a new port -- issue with man page install Message-ID: <20070906165448.GA22447@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <8682df160709060829o41a00c2axd642a606bb172b57@mail.gmail.com> References: <8682df160709060829o41a00c2axd642a606bb172b57@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:29:09AM -0400, Chess Griffin wrote:
> Hello-
>=20
> I am working a new port (for gPodder, a GTK2 python-based media
> aggregator) and so far everything seems to be working pretty well
> (after reading through the Porter's Handbook -- what a great piece of
> documentation). Anyway, I cannot seem to figure out one thing.
>=20
> The tarball has a man page located in /gpodder-0.9.5/doc/man/gpodder.1.
>=20
> In my Makefile, I have this:
>=20
> MANCOMPRESSED=3D no
> MAN1=3D ${PORTNAME}.1
>=20
> PORTNAME is gpodder, BTW. Anyway, when I create a package, it
> complains that it cannot find or install the man page and I am not
> sure how to fix this. Some of the snipped output is this:
>=20
>=20
> =3D=3D=3D> Compressing manual pages for gpodder-0.9.5
> gzip: can't stat: /usr/local/man/man1/gpodder.1: No such file or directory
> =3D=3D=3D> Registering installation for gpodder-0.9.5
> =3D=3D=3D> Building package for gpodder-0.9.5
> Creating package /usr/ports/packages/All/gpodder-0.9.5.tbz
> <snip>
> Creating bzip'd tar ball in '/usr/ports/packages/All/gpodder-0.9.5.tbz'
> tar: man/man1/gpodder.1.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
> pkg_create: make_dist: tar command failed with code 256
> *** Error code 1
>=20
> Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/gpodder.
>=20
>=20
> Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
The error messages seem to indicate that the problem the manpage isn't
being installed. All the MAN# variables do is tell the ports system you
will be installing them. You should do something like:
post-install:
${INSTALL_MAN} ${WRKSRC}/doc/man/gpodder.1 ${MANPREFIX}/man/man1
-- Brooks
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