Re: Installing compressed info files

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 12:09 +0200, Bernd Jendrissek wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> > * Bernd Jendrissek wrote on Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:41:36PM CEST:
> >> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:07 PM, John Darrington <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> >  How can I change it so that compressed versions are installed instead?
> >>
> >> Same for man pages.  Back when I kept a private set of build scripts
> >> for half a zillion packages, I had an m4 macro that expanded to a
> >> shell command that would compress these resources, after 'make
> >> install' had finished.  It was a bit fragile with TEXINFOS though,
> >> since the info files didn't all have the same filename extension.  (I
> >> recall having some fun with info itself, as it would install it's
> >> documentation named info.info.  My naive filename glob broke on that.)

I am strongly opposed to adding such feature to automake, because
man-page compression is a target system's and a system-integrator
feature, not a package feature.

So, if at all, enabling such feature should remain strictly optional and
must remain configurable by the system integrator - To me, this doesn't
make much sense.

> > Not all system's man programs cope with compressed manpages.  I know
> > some (most? all?) GNU/Linux distributions install compressed manpages,
Some GNU/Linux distros install *bz2'ed manpages, other might be using
something completely different in future, ...

> > I assume it's rpm/deb/... features that compress them, right?
> 
> I assume so too. 
Correct, as far as rpm is concerned. Rpm implicitly compresses them as
part of building a package by running some scripts. 

Ralf