Re: disabling man pages completely ?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> ive looked through the build system and i dont think there is a simple
> way to disable man pages altogether ?  i think a new option to
> configure would be appropriate:
> --with-manpage-format=none
> or something similar
>
> what do you think ?

There are separate makefile rules for installing manpages, libs, data and 
programs.

(I've considered installing the test-programs too, but since they 
shouldn't be in the normal bin-directory, haven't thought much beyond 
_that_).

Anyway - I use the separate rules all the time, since I build several 
flavors of the libraries.

> > the reason i ask is that ncurses often gets integrated into embedded
> building systems and the step to run sed/install/etc... man pages is
> actually a bit time consuming ... since i only care about
> building/installing the library and a few programs, any extraneous
> documentation is just going to be thrown away.  atm i'm patching it
> out in the man Makefile ...
> -mike
>
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