Hello again Paul,
Paul Eggert wrote:
If memory serves, we were going to add a configure-time flag
to change the program names from z* to gz*, which sounds
reasonable, when someone gets around to it.
Exactly.
Is that a change you could write? That would help move things along,
I expect.
Rob Savoye has been so kind as to write the attached patch which
correctly uses the standard configure option "--program-transform-name"
to also rename the man pages.
After applying this patch, it is easy to prefix a 'g' to the front of
any executable (and manpage) that does start with a 'z' by invoking
configure as Matias suggested[1]:
./configure --prefix=/usr --program-transform-name='s/^z/g&/'
[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2011-01/msg00016.html
Thanks,
Antonio.
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 86a0297..58024c5 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -145,6 +145,29 @@ install-exec-hook remove-installed-links:
done; \
done
+install-man1: $(MANS)
+ test -d "$(DESTDIR)$(man1dir)/" || $(mkinstalldirs) "$(DESTDIR)$(man1dir)/"
+ for file in $(MANS) $(EXTRAMANPAGES); do \
+ g=`echo $$file | grep -c "^g"`; \
+ if test $$g -eq 0; then \
+ t="`echo $$file | sed '$(program_transform_name)'`"; \
+ else \
+ t=$$file; \
+ fi; \
+ $(INSTALL_DATA) $$file $(DESTDIR)$(man1dir)/$$t; \
+ done
+
+uninstall-man1:
+ for file in $(MANS) $(EXTRAMANPAGES); do \
+ g=`echo $$file | grep -c "^g"`; \
+ if test $$g -eq 0; then \
+ t="`echo $$file | sed '$(program_transform_name)'`"; \
+ else \
+ t=$$file; \
+ fi; \
+ $(RM) $(DESTDIR)$(man1dir)/$$t; \
+ done
+
uninstall-local: remove-installed-links
ALL_RECURSIVE_TARGETS += distcheck-hook
