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Re: ./configure --program-suffix and man pages
- From: Kelley Cook <kcook34 at ford dot com>
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- Cc: GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 12:58:30 -0500
- Subject: Re: ./configure --program-suffix and man pages
- Hop-count: 1
- References: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0401231121210.63454@naos.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
- Reply-to: Kelley Cook <kelleycook at yahoo dot com>
Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> I noticed that if one uses --program-suffix, for example to append a
> version number like -3.3.3 to all binaries, the names of man pages are
> not affected.
>
> So while one can invoke gcc-3.3.3, gcc-treessa, gcc-3.5.0, whatever,
> the man pages for all of these will also be called gcc.1.
Jerry,
At least for 3.4+, this renaming you have requested will happen during a
make install.
$ ../gcc-snapshot/configure --program-suffix=-3.4prerelease
...
$ make configure-gcc
...
$ cd gcc
$ make install-man
$ ls -R /usr/local/man
/usr/local/man:
man1 man5 man7
/usr/local/man/man1:
cpp.1 gcj-3.4prerelease.1 jcf-dump.1 rmiregistry.1
g++-3.4prerelease.1 gcjh.1 jv-convert.1
g77-3.4prerelease.1 gcov.1 jv-scan.1
gcc-3.4prerelease.1 gij.1 rmic.1
/usr/local/man/man5:
/usr/local/man/man7:
fsf-funding.7 gfdl.7 gpl.7
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