On 02/01/2012 06:33 PM, Brice Goglin wrote: > Hello, > Hi Brice. > We have a very long list of manpages to install in man3 in the hwloc > project [1]. Somebody recently reported a failure of some platform > because the install-man command-line was too long. Indeed we have a > single man3_MANS variable with maaaany manpages. I tried to split it > into pieces as explained in [2] but this doesn't appear to work. From > what I see in the automake code, only man_MANS and man[0-9]_MANS > variables are processed as manpages. Anything else such as man3_foo_MANS > seems ignored. > Unfortunately true, and a known bug; see:
<http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10695> <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7656> > How may I solve this? Is there anything better than the following ideas: > * Split into many different man3_foo_DATA variables inside the same > Makefile.am because any variable ending with _DATA is processed. it > works but installing manpages as DATA might cause other problems? > Not sure about this... I *think* that it should work, as long as your man pages already have the correct suffix (e.g., manpages going in section 3 are named like 'foo.3', not like 'foo.man') and you don't care that they are not installed when you call "make install-man", but only when you call "make install-data"... But as I said, I don't feel like offering any certainty. > * Split my doc directory into subdirectories with a smaller part of my > big man3_MANS in each subdirectory. Looks ok, but not very nice because > these new subdirectories are not used for anything else. > Personally, I'd use this second solution; it is uglier but safer. But if that other, previous solution works for you (and I see from the links below it is already implemented in your repo), by all means stick to it. > FWIW, the current man3_MANS variable is visible at [3]. All section 3 > manpages are generated at the same time with doxygen. > > Thank you > Brice Goglin > HTH, Stefano
