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

[Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>]

Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> writes:

> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Geoff Keating wrote:
> >> 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...
> 
> Well, but with GCC we are currently shipping the following info files,
> in addition to gcc.info:
> 
>   cpp.info
>   cppinternals.info
>   g77.info
>   gccinstall.info
>   gccint.info
>   gcj.info
>   fastjar.info
> 
> I suppose this is one of those cases, where the GNU documentation simply
> is not explicit to the last detail.
> 
> And there are at least two major distributions I am aware of, namely
> Debian and FreeBSD, who would like to use this feature.

Sure.  As I said, I'm not sure either way.

Whatever we do, it should certainly be documented.

> >>  what would you propose to achieve this installation option?
> > What do other GNU programs do?
> 
> I guess there are very few other GNU programs where one often needs to
> have different versions installed. :-}

autoconf?  automake?  make?  bison?  emacs?

I know that Red Hat FC1 has at least 3 versions of automake installed.

In fact, automake should be a very good example, since it pretty much
sets the standard for GNU programs.  I think that whatever we do
should be the same as automake does; if we don't want that, automake
should be changed first.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>