Those directories exist under /usr/share/man. How do I get install to
look for /usr/share/man rather than just /usr/share?


Paul B. wrote:
> Make sure the /usr/share/man8 and /usr/share/man1 directory exists. You
> probably need to create those directories. If you prefer to have the files
> in another location, you can always later move the man files to whatever
> directory Fedora has in the man path.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> "jp" <johnpenk7@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1169135851.586180.273240@v45g2000cwv.googlegr oups.com...
> > Hi -
> >
> > I am trying to build sendmail-8.13.8 on a FC6 system.
> >
> > In sendmail/devtools/Site I made a file called site.config.m4 with a
> > single line:
> > define(`confMANROOT', `/usr/share/man')
> > because it appears that my man pages are in the /usr/share dir on FC6
> > rather than the /usr/man dir that sendmail expects.
> >
> > My steps:
> > 1) in the sendmail dir do a ./Build
> > 2) cd cf/cf
> > 3) copy generic-linux.mc to sendmail.mc
> > 4) run ./Build sendmail.cf
> > 5) run ./Build install-cf
> > 6) cd to sendmail/
> > 6)run ./Build install
> >
> > In step 6 I get quite a few errors which I've posted below.
> >
> > How can I fix my problems?
> > JP
> >
> > install -c -o bin -g bin -m 444 sendmail.0 /usr/share/man8/sendmail.8
> > install: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man8/sendmail.8': No
> > such file or directory
> > make[1]: *** [install-docs] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/jp/sendmail-8.13.8/obj.Linux.2.6.18-1.2869.fc6.i686/sendmail'
> >
> > install -c -o bin -g bin -m 444 editmap.0 /usr/share/man8/editmap.8
> > install: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man8/editmap.8': No
> > such file or directory
> > make[1]: *** [install-docs] Error 1
> >
> > install -c -o bin -g bin -m 444 mailstats.0 /usr/share/man8/mailstats.8
> > install: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man8/mailstats.8': No
> > such file or directory
> > make[1]: *** [install-docs] Error 1
> >
> > install -c -o bin -g bin -m 444 vacation.0 /usr/share/man1/vacation.1
> > install: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/man1/vacation.1': No
> > such file or directory
> > make[1]: *** [install-docs] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/jp/sendmail-8.13.8/obj.Linux.2.6.18-1.2869.fc6.i686/vacation'
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
> > [root@jp sendmail-8.13.8]#
> >