[patch] honor program_transform_name on installation of info manuals

Matthias Klose doko@cs.tu-berlin.de
Thu Feb 19 00:12:00 GMT 2004


Geoff Keating writes:
> 
> On Feb 18, 2004, at 3:25 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:
> 
> > attached is patch, which renames the info files on generation and
> > changes the references to external gcc files. checked with an install
> > configure with and without --program-suffix=-3.5.
> >
> > Ada manuals are renamed as all of the other Ada tools and man pages
> > are not renamed as well.
> >
> > ok to apply?
> 
> I'm not sure about the renaming of the actual info files.  They are 
> not, after all, named after the executable 'gcc'; they are named after 
> the project GCC.

it's my understanding that the --program-suffix option should allow
parallel installation of more than one GCC version with the same path
prefix. info file names never made the distinction on the case of
letters. what would you propose to achieve this installation option?

	Matthias



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