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Re: ./configure --program-suffix and man pages
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- To: Kelley Cook <kelleycook at yahoo dot com>,Phil Edwards <phil at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Matthias Klose <doko at cs dot tu-berlin dot de>,GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 00:09:11 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: ./configure --program-suffix and man pages
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On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Kelley Cook wrote:
>> 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.
> At least for 3.4+, this renaming you have requested will happen during a
> make install.
>
> /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
Well, not completely, as you can see from the list above. And I was
actually planning to open a PR about that, but Geoff fixed this today.
Excellent.
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Phil Edwards wrote:
>> 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.
Ideally, yes.
> A sufficiently intelligent sed pattern could probably handle all of the
> above, but makeinfo support would be better.
Would you mind raising this issue with the makeinfo folks, Phil (Cc:ing
me)? I found them extremely responsive in the past!
If you'd rather not like to do that, I can give it a try.
Gerald
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