Subject: Re: NOMAN
To: der Mouse <mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 10/29/1997 09:17:48
On Wed, 29 Oct 1997 08:21:02 -0500 (EST)
der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> wrote:
You didn't make sure your .mk files were up to date.
> I'm doing a NetBSD/sparc build-of-the-world. Since the system I'm
> doing it on has very little space anywhere but /usr/src, too little to
> hold a full system, I set NOMAN=yes in the environment so as to avoid
> installing tons of goop in /usr/share/man when doing the make install
> for libc.
>
> But then, I get
>
> ===> share/man/man1
> ===> share/man/man1/man1.atari
> make: don't know how to make all. Stop
> *** Error code 2
>
> Stop.
> [cascade of "Error code 1" / "Stop." snipped]
> #
>
> I believe this is directly related to NOMAN, because on another SPARC,
> where I have room enough, doing a build with NOMAN unset worked fine.
> (This lack of space is a transient state; once I get a build done, I
> will install into some other space and will then have plenty of room to
> build-and-install everything, including manpages.)
>
> I think bsd.man.mk needs to provide some of the targets it normally
> does, even when NOMAN is turned on - they just need to do nothing. :-)
>
> der Mouse
>
> mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca
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