Subject: bug#59503: closed (Re: bug#59503: 28.2.50; cannot set --mandir when installing)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 16:45:01 +0000

Your bug report

#59503: 28.2.50; cannot set --mandir when installing

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#59503: 28.2.50; cannot set --mandir when installing
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: daanturo <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 18:45:07 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 22:20:11 +0700
> Cc: [email-masked]
> From: daanturo <[email-masked]>
> 
> Thank you. Turns out it wasn't any bug but my mistake for running `make
> extraclean` after `./configure` but before `make install`.
> 
> Please close this bug

Done.

> (I don't think bug reporters can do that, but if that's possible, can you
> show me the docs?).

You _can_ close bugs, just send message to [email-masked], where
NNNN is the bug number.  Like I did here.

Thanks.

Subject: 28.2.50; cannot set --mandir when installing
From: daanturo <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 12:11:55 +0700
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Despite having set --prefix and/or --mandir to a writable directory in
my $HOME, `make install` always throws me this:

/usr/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/share/man/man1’: Permission denied

Currently on commit 0636e106

Configure flags:

./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt/emacs-28.2.50
--program-transform-name='s/\(ctags\)/\1.emacs/' --with-json
--with-libsystemd --with-modules --with-native-compilation
--with-sound=alsa --without-compress-install

-- 
Daanturo.