On Sep 28, 2013, at 10:30 PM, Jeff Hammond wrote:

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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.

The target is "make mandoc". And yes, if you don't specify --manpage, it'll put it in your prefix path by default. You only need to provide the additional --manpage information if you want to install it in a different location. You never have to copy it manually. -- Pavan -- Pavan Balaji http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji