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@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@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

--
Dr. Markus Geimer
Juelich Supercomputing Centre
Institute for Advanced Simulation
Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH
52425 Juelich, Germany

Phone:  +49-2461-61-1773
Fax:    +49-2461-61-6656
E-mail: m.geimer@fz-juelich.de
WWW:    http://www.fz-juelich.de/jsc/



------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH
52425 Juelich
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich
Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher
Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender),
Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt,
Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

_______________________________________________
discuss mailing list     discuss@mpich.org
To manage subscription options or unsubscribe:
https://lists.mpich.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

_______________________________________________
discuss mailing list     discuss@mpich.org
To manage subscription options or unsubscribe:
https://lists.mpich.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss