/usr/local/man/man1,7 are not created by make install

[ghost]

/usr/local/man/man1 and /usr/local/man/man7 were not created using make install, and caused the script to fail. Had to create them manually before it would work.

[bentley]

Not a bug. Different Unixes have different ideas of where man pages should go; there’s no way to pick one that works everywhere. Creating the directories automatically is a bad idea, because there’s no guarantee that the created directories will be searched by man. Better to fail right away so the builder knows to set MANPREFIX properly, as documented in the readme.

The solution is to define MANPREFIX for your system. For example, on Debian and some other systems:

make install MANPREFIX=/usr/share/man