Re: How do I get automake to create compressed man pages?

[Daniel Leidert]

Am Mittwoch, den 18.04.2007, 00:46 -0500 schrieb Paul Elliott:
> Excuse me if this is a faq but I can not easily find the asnwer.
> 
> I have a Makefile.am that creates and installs a man page myprog.1
> 
> It says
> 
> man1_MANS = myprog.1
> 
> The source is myprog.1. How do I make it create and install a compressed
> man page version myprog.1.gz?

What about:

man1_MANS = myprog.1.gz

%.1.gz : %.1
        gzip $< -c > $@

?

Regards, Daniel