Re: [patch] honor program_transform_name on installation of info manuals

[Geoff Keating <geoffk at apple dot com>]

On Feb 18, 2004, at 3:48 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:

> Geoff Keating writes:
> > On Feb 18, 2004, at 3:25 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:
> >
> > > attached is patch, which renames the info files on generation and
> > > changes the references to external gcc files. checked with an install
> > > configure with and without --program-suffix=-3.5.
> > >
> > > Ada manuals are renamed as all of the other Ada tools and man pages
> > > are not renamed as well.
> > >
> > > ok to apply?
> >
> > I'm not sure about the renaming of the actual info files.  They are
> > not, after all, named after the executable 'gcc'; they are named after
> > the project GCC.
>
> it's my understanding that the --program-suffix option should allow
> parallel installation of more than one GCC version with the same path
> prefix.

I've heard that, but I have no evidence that it's true.  The only 
documentation of --program-* seems to be in the configure --help:

  --program-prefix=PREFIX prepend PREFIX to installed program names
  --program-suffix=SUFFIX append SUFFIX to installed program names
  --program-transform-name=PROGRAM
                          run sed PROGRAM on installed program names

Info files aren't named based on a program name...

>  info file names never made the distinction on the case of
> letters.

No, case has nothing to do with it.  The point is that info files are 
usually named after the project, not after the executables, unlike man 
pages which are named after the executables.

>  what would you propose to achieve this installation option?

What do other GNU programs do?

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Geoff Keating <geoffk@apple.com>