memcached 1.1.11 install glitch (fwd)

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

So what's the configure.ac file I need to put in doc/ then?


On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Evan Martin wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 10:01:34AM -0700, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> > Can anybody who speaks autoconf help us with this?
>
> The typical solution in other autoconf'd software is to put the manpage
> in the toplevel directory, as Jamie wrote:
>
> > Simple fix is to move memcached.1 out of the doc/ subdir and edit
> > the man_MANS line in Makefile.am;  or have make recurse into doc/
> > and put a Makefile in there.  I don't know what the complex fix
> > would be, I speak Makefile about as well as I speak French (je ne
> > parle pas le metalangue).
>
> I can't remember the memcache layout, but the other solution I've used
> is to do:
>
> in toplevel Makefile.am:
>  SUBDIRS = doc
> in doc/Makefile.am:
>  man_MANS = memcached.1
>  # not quite sure why this is necessary with the above, but:
>  EXTRA_DIST = memcached.1
>
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> Evan Martin
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> http://neugierig.org
>
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