When building kexec-tools 2.0.1, I noticed that "make install" failed to install any man pages. Upon looking, I found that what "make install" had tried to do was: for file in build/sbin/kexec .. kexec/kexec.8 kdump/kdump.8; do if test `dirname $file` = "build/sbin" ; then ... if test `dirname $file` = "build/man/man8" ; then mkdir -p /tmp/kex//usr/share/man/man8/ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $file /tmp/kex//usr/share/man/man8/ fi ... done Since the man pages don't start with "build/", they don't match the if clause so aren't installed. Source in the makefile looks like this: if test `$(DIRNAME) $$file` = "$(MAN8DIR)" ; then \ A test that might better express what you are trying to do: if test `basename x/foo.8 .8` = foo perhaps something like this: configure.ac: AC_CHECK_PROG([BASENAME], basename, basename, "no", [$PATH]) if test "$BASENAME" = "no"; then AC_MSG_ERROR([ basename not found]) fi Makefile.in: if test `$(BASENAME) $$file .8` = "$$file" ; then \ -Marcus Watts
