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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