Re: What is d2mdir?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)oryx(dot)com> writes:
>> At 2008-09-02 15:10:23 +0300, devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org wrote:
>>> [devrim(at)laptop sgml]$ make man
>
>> As Alvaro noted recently, you need to use "make man D2MDIR=/some/path".
>
> I see it's been like that for quite some time, but still it seems pretty
> bogus. Why isn't configure handling this? If there's some good reason
> not to automate it, why isn't it documented in the "Building The
> Documentation" appendix?
>
> regards, tom lane
>

The documentation says that

"""
To generate quality man pages, it might be necessary to use a hacked
version of the conversion utility or do some manual postprocessing.
""""

which is why no standard path exists.

Something about that needs to be cleaned up, I admit. I'll make a note
about it.