manpages not installed in out-of-tree builds

[rossburton]

If I do an out-of-tree build of rsync without md2man working then the manpages don't get installed when build from tarball, which ships pre-generated manpages.

This is because the Makefile's install rule looks in the build directory for rsync.1 but it doesn't exist, it's in the source directory.

[devZer0]

could you give an example on how an "out of tree" build is being done @rossburton ?

[rossburton]

Standard autoconf-style:

$ mkdir build
$ ../configure
$ make

Needs to be reproduced from a tarball that has the manpages pre-generated.

[devZer0]

i cannot confirm this issue with rsync 3.4.1,

root@backupvm1:~/roland/rsync-3.4.1/build# find /tmp/rsync/
/tmp/rsync/
/tmp/rsync/share
/tmp/rsync/share/man
/tmp/rsync/share/man/man5
/tmp/rsync/share/man/man5/rsyncd.conf.5
/tmp/rsync/share/man/man1
/tmp/rsync/share/man/man1/rsync-ssl.1
/tmp/rsync/share/man/man1/rsync.1
/tmp/rsync/bin
/tmp/rsync/bin/rsync-ssl
/tmp/rsync/bin/rsync

i see manpages installed , only manpage from rrsync is missing, but that is a separate issue reported at #868

[rossburton]

Try adding --disable-md2man to configure: the tarballs have generated tarballs so the tooling to regenerate them shouldn't be needed.