[patch] honor program_transform_name on installation of info manuals

Matthias Klose doko@cs.tu-berlin.de
Sat Feb 21 13:45:00 GMT 2004


Geoff Keating writes:
> 
> On Feb 18, 2004, at 3:48 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 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, maybe it has to do something about the PACKAGE name? currently
"gcc" is hardcoded in gcc/intl/intl.c as well ... 

> >  what would you propose to achieve this installation option?
> 
> What do other GNU programs do?

checked textutils and binutils. info pages are installed under their
native name.

	Matthias



More information about the Gcc-patches mailing list