#5592 NORM Never A: Telepathy-gabble trying to write to /usr/local/share/man/man8

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#5592: Telepathy-gabble trying to write to /usr/local/share/man/man8
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 Reporter:  mcfletch          |       Owner:  smcv              
     Type:  defect            |      Status:  new               
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Never Assigned    
Component:  telepathy-gabble  |     Version:  Git as of bug date
 Keywords:                    |    Verified:  0                 
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 telepathy-gabble is failing to build on Gentoo AMD64 because it is
 attempting to create a directory /usr/local/share/man/man8 which is not
 writable by the unprivileged user.

 *** Installing telepathy-gabble *** [15/50]
 {{{
 make   install
 Making install in docs
 make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mcfletch/olpc/sugar-jhbuild/source
 /telepathy-gabble-0.7.1/docs'
 make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mcfletch/olpc/sugar-jhbuild/source
 /telepathy-gabble-0.7.1/docs'
 make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
 test -z "/usr/local/share/man/man8" || mkdir -p --
 "/usr/local/share/man/man8"
 mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/share/man/man8': Permission
 denied
 make[2]: *** [install-man8] Error 1
 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mcfletch/olpc/sugar-jhbuild/source
 /telepathy-gabble-0.7.1/docs'
 make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mcfletch/olpc/sugar-jhbuild/source
 /telepathy-gabble-0.7.1/docs'
 make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
 *** error during stage install of telepathy-gabble: ########## Error
 running make   install *** [15/50]
 }}}

 I'm guessing the install script is just failing to pass on a 'root'
 directory to the installation code.

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