Correct path for man pages

Mateusz Piotrowski 0mp at FreeBSD.org
Sun Nov 1 18:20:05 UTC 2020


On 11/1/20 2:41 PM, Nuno Teixeira wrote:
> I remember reading something about correct path for man pages:
>
> ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/share/man/manN
> or
> ${STAGEDIR}${MAN1PREFIX}/man/manN
>
> Can't find original post about it.

Probably the CHANGES file in the ports tree:

20200115:
AUTHOR: bapt at FreeBSD.org

   ${PREFIX}/share/man is now a valid location for manpages ${PREFIX}/man being
   considered as deprecated.

Cheers,

Mateusz



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