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Install gems as homebrew formulas
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Doesn't install man pages for homebrew #35

Closed dabrahams closed 7 years ago

dabrahams commented 7 years ago

after brew gem install kramdown I have /Users/dave/brew/Cellar/gem-kramdown/1.12.0/gems/kramdown-1.12.0/man/man1/kramdown.1, but man kramdown doesn't work.

This fixed it for me. brew-gem should do something similar automatically.

ln -s /Users/dave/brew/Cellar/gem-kramdown/1.12.0/gems/kramdown-1.12.0/man/man1/* ~/brew/share/man/man1

Presumably this is broken for info files as well.

anfleene commented 7 years ago

I think it's only because kramdown doesn't put the man pages where homebrew expects them

Homebrew expects to find manual pages in #{prefix}/share/man/..., and not in #{prefix}/man/....

Some software installs to man instead of share/man, so check the output and add a "--mandir=#{man}" to the ./configure line if needed.

I think we would be open to accepting a PR that tried to figure out where mandir is and set it accordingly in the generated formula.

dabrahams commented 7 years ago

My assumption was that the kramdown gem was putting the manpages in the standard place for gems w.r.t. where brew-gem installs it. Realistically, I don't think I can do the PR, so feel free to close this if that's the only way it happens. Just trying to do my bit by reporting problems.