On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 04:57:06PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > Am Die, 2002-07-02 um 09.08 schrieb John Poltorak: > > > > Is there any way to GZIP docs (man pages and info docs) automatically when > > building apps? > > > > > > I often see these files compressed, > I guess you are referring to rpms containing gzip'ed mans and infos.
Not directly. Slackware comes with gzip'ed mans and infos, but it does not use rpms. > > but don't know if there are any > > options within autoconf to enable this, > No. > > > or whether this has to be an > > additional manual step after running make install... > Yes. In case of using rpm, it's either rpm which compresses them > automatically or the rpm's spec which explicitly contains statements to > gzip them. I had a look at a Slackware build script, and found the gzip'ing done there, but it seems to be a natural extension to 'make install'... Wonder if there is any way to incorporate it. > Ralf -- John
