Re: kernelshark: Proper way to install documents when packaging as rpm

[Yordan Karadzhov <y.karadz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Zamir,

We never had a functional installation of the documentation. The 
documentation itself needs significant amount of work, so I would prefer 
to keep it only as an option for those enthusiasts who want to build the 
project from source.

Thanks!
Yordan


On 10/11/22 18:15, Zamir SUN wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I am working on packaging kernelshark as RPM, I noticed that 
> kernelshark documents cannot be installed with make
> install. My compiling steps is like the following (with the passing of 
> compiling flags omitted in this email to reduce length)
>
> cd build
> cmake ..  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Package -D_DOXYGEN_DOC=1
> make V=1 all doc
>
> And installation is by
>
> cd build
> make V=1 install
>
> Manually running the expanded commands I see there are actually 
> documents compiled under Documentation dir. But the make install did not 
> copy that. `make list_install_components` shows that
>
> Available install components are: "kernelshark" "libkshark-devel" 
> "polkit-policy"
>
> Additionally, simply going into Documentation dir and run make install 
> will just result in error
>
> No rule to make target '/Documentation/kernelshark.1'
>
> So I feel this isn't the right way either. So I wonder if I should 
> manually copy all the stuff (or a subset?) from Documentation dir into 
> the package, or is there a preferred installation step that I missed?
>
> Thanks in advance.