User manual still not installed

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Sun Dec 15 11:02:09 UTC 2013


On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 20:55 +0200, Willem Ferguson wrote:
> willem at willem-Precision-M4700:/usr/share/subsurface$ ls -l
> total 20
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 13 15:55 bitmaps
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 30 20:43 data
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 13 15:55 maps
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 14 07:48 translations
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 18 07:36 xslt

So did you run 

sudo make install

???

And are you on the latest master?

/D

> I so wish I could do anything to help here, but I have no clue.
> 
> I will install binary from the web site now and let you know where the 
> files end.
> 
> Kind regards,
> willemf
> 
> On 15/12/2013 20:19, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> > On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 20:02 +0200, Willem Ferguson wrote:
> >> My build directory is /home/subsurface
> >> Building results in perfect .html file in
> >> /home/subsurface/Documentation/ as well as image/ as well as
> >> image/icons/ subfolders with all image, all inside Documentation.
> >> Subsurface binary is created in /home/subsurface, as it should be. All
> >> of this appears perfect.
> >>
> >> In addition, subsurface binary is also put in /usr/bin. But there is no
> >> additional copy of the documentation generated anywhere where I can see.
> > This is the part I don't get.
> >
> > if you just run
> >
> > make
> >
> > no subsurface binary should be placed into /usr/bin
> >
> > and if you run
> >
> > sudo make install
> >
> > then both subsurface and all its support files,
> > including /usr/share/subsurface/Documentation should be installed
> >
> >> What I did just as a test was to create a /usr/bin/Documentation folder
> >> with the manual and then the executable in /usr/bin/ sees the manual
> >> perfectly.
> > But that's just WRONG :-)
> >
> >> Only question is, seen from a Linux purist point of view, whether
> >> /usr/bin/Documentation is the best place. But this issue is totally
> >> irrelevant with respect to version 4.0.
> > No, that's a terrible place. The best place would arguably
> > be /usr/share/doc/subsurface - but we went
> > with /usr/share/subsurface/Documentation
> >
> > /D
> >
> >
> >
> >> On 15/12/2013 18:53, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> >>> That's lacking a bit too much context...
> >>>
> >>> When you build under Ubuntu, is the html file built correctly?
> >>> Where?
> >>>
> >>> When you install under Ubuntu, what is installed?
> >>>
> >>> (I cannot begin to tell you how much I hate Ubuntu...)
> >>>
> >>> /D
> >
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