[MacOS] Installing man pages `install: illegal option -- D`

[eliocapelati]

Following the installation of man pages on MacOS isn't working.

The error

➜  man git:(main) ✗ sudo make install
install -Dm644 rio.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1/rio.1
install: illegal option -- D
usage: install [-bCcpSsv] [-B suffix] [-f flags] [-g group] [-m mode]
               [-o owner] file1 file2
       install [-bCcpSsv] [-B suffix] [-f flags] [-g group] [-m mode]
               [-o owner] file1 ... fileN directory
       install -d [-v] [-g group] [-m mode] [-o owner] directory ...
make: *** [install] Error 64

Troubleshooting

This is happening because the shipped install version doesn't comes with the -D flag on it.

➜  man git:(main) ✗ install
usage: install [-bCcpSsv] [-B suffix] [-f flags] [-g group] [-m mode]
               [-o owner] file1 file2
       install [-bCcpSsv] [-B suffix] [-f flags] [-g group] [-m mode]
               [-o owner] file1 ... fileN directory
       install -d [-v] [-g group] [-m mode] [-o owner] directory ...

Ultimately the -D options is to insure that parent directory exists.

coreutils

With coreutils installed I can get gnu-install but it came named ginstall. But will make it not portable.

This worked for me:

install: all
     ginstall -Dm644 rio.1 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man1/rio.1
     ginstall -Dm644 rio.5 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man5/rio.5
     ginstall -Dm644 rio-bindings.5 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man5/rio-bindings.5

I'm using MacOS 13.7.8 Ventura.