Re: What is d2mdir?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@oryx.com> writes:
>> At 2008-09-02 15:10:23 +0300, devrim@gunduz.org wrote:
>>> [devrim@laptop sgml]$ make man
> 
>> As Alvaro noted recently, you need to use "make man D2MDIR=/some/path".
> 
> I see it's been like that for quite some time, but still it seems pretty
> bogus.  Why isn't configure handling this?  If there's some good reason
> not to automate it, why isn't it documented in the "Building The
> Documentation" appendix?
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 

The documentation says that

"""
To generate quality man pages, it might be necessary to use a hacked 
version of the conversion utility or do some manual postprocessing.
""""

which is why no standard path exists.

Something about that needs to be cleaned up, I admit.  I'll make a note 
about it.