On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 08:35:01AM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Martin Dickopp wrote: > >I would like to have better support for translated manual pages. > >In a possible implementation, > > > > man_MANS = foo.1 foo.de.1 > > > >would install `foo.1' as [EMAIL PROTECTED]@/man1/foo.1' and `foo.de.1' as > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]@/de/man1/foo.1'. Would you consider a patch to that effect? > > With your scheme, how should the manual page "ld.so.8" (the manual > page for the Solaris run-time linker) be handled? Would it be > installed in @mandir@/so/man8/ld.8 by mistake? This is just an example > which shows that there may be pre-existing use of the naming pattern.
Good point. What about putting the language after the section, possibly separated by a `-' or `_' character? Automake currently wouldn't consider `1de' a valid section, so this shouldn't conflict with pre- existing practice. Martin
