The man pages are placed in a wrong directory

[zirneklitis]

There is a strange line in the file 'configure' from source gdal-1.10.0.tar.gz.

The line number 27833:

mandir='${prefix}/man'

This line causes the man pages to be placed in a wrong directory (Fedora 18x64). Removing the line fixes the problem.

[zirneklitis]

The same problem in trunk-r26048. Why to place the man pages in a wrong place? Look in "configure.in":

dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
dnl By default mandir is $datarootdir/man which would be
dnl /usr/local/share/gdal/man but we want man pages in /usr/local/man. 
dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
mandir='${prefix}/man'

[warmerdam]

This was a deliberate decision as noted in the comments - likely by me.

You can always work around it by doing "make install-man INST_MAN=<whereyouwantthem>" after configuring.

[jacknagel]

Well this is somewhat silly.

It causes the configure script to throw away the value passed in with --mandir=.... It also means that

$ ./configure --help | grep mandir

--mandir=DIR man documentation [DATAROOTDIR/man]

is incorrect.

It would make packaging tasks easier if it just respected --mandir like everything else that uses autotools.