Hi Ralf,
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Hello Harald,
* Harald Dunkel wrote on Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 01:04:25PM CEST:
I have to install several manpages in separate
subdirectories. But it seems that something like
toolmandir = ${prefix}/tooldir/man
toolman_MANS = hello.1
does not work. Did I miss something in the documentation
here? (I am using Automake 1.9.6.)
I think <http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Man-pages>
states that only manSECTIONdir is allowed, for a valid section named
SECTION.
Maybe you would agree that it is very easy to misunderstand
this part? The other primaries (e.g. DATA, SCRIPTS) do accept
a "real" directory variable, and yet the docu usually mentions
just "bin_PROGRAMS".
I'd be curious as to what advantage there is to install manpages in a
location where the man program will not find them by default?
I am creating several binary modules from a single set of
source files. The generated code is supposed to be
installed in ${prefix}/mod1, ${prefix}/mod2, etc. Each
mod? directory becomes a seperate binary module (using
dpkg).
Of course these binmodules can (optionally) be installed
in a common directory tree later, as needed. But it is
important that the man pages are part of the binary modules
they belong to.
Currently I install the man pages using "tooldir_DATA", of
course. Do you think it would be difficult to replace the
hardwired 'man' in automake.pl by a directory variable?
Regards
Harri
