Re: ./configure --program-suffix and man pages

[Phil Edwards <phil at codesourcery dot com>]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:05:38PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Kelley Cook writes:
> > 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.
> 
> but not for the generated info pages.

That's going to be tricky without help from makeinfo.  The info files refer to
one another, so we would have to rewrite content, not just rename the files.

For that matter, it could be argued that the man pages which refer to one
another should also be rewritten.

A sufficiently intelligent sed pattern could probably handle all of the above,
but makeinfo support would be better.

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