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

[Zamir SUN <sztsian@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Yordan,

Thanks for the info. This also makes sense. As a packager I can still 
decide and chose the files that is useful and manually wrap it into the RPM.

Thanks.

On 10/13/22 00:37, Yordan Karadzhov wrote:
> 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.

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