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Re: ./configure --program-suffix and man pages
Joseph S. Myers writes:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Matthias Klose wrote:
>
> > > At least for 3.4+, this renaming you have requested will happen during a
> > > make install.
> >
> > but not for the generated info pages.
>
> Doing this properly also involves adjusting the info directory entries to
> refer to the correct info files, e.g. with -D on the makeinfo command line
> to change the default. And this means that if such an option to change
> the info file names is specified, any pre-built info files in a release
> tarball must be ignored in favour of building new ones (this may already
> work, I don't know).
ok, I'll have a look at this. this is still wrong in the Debian
packages.
> Similarly, the bodies of the manpages should be adjusted to reflect the
> installed program names (rather than a manpage for gcc-3.4 documenting a
> command "gcc").
>
> Then you might adjust intl.c so that each version uses suffixed
> translations (gcc-3.4.mo, etc.).
oh yes, this patch was already ignored two times :-(
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-05/msg01461.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-10/msg01160.html