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Re: GZIPing docs
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John Poltorak |
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Re: GZIPing docs |
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Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:00:41 +0100 |
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 04:57:06PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Am Die, 2002-07-02 um 09.08 schrieb John Poltorak:
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> > Is there any way to GZIP docs (man pages and info docs) automatically when
> > building apps?
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> > I often see these files compressed,
> I guess you are referring to rpms containing gzip'ed mans and infos.
Not directly. Slackware comes with gzip'ed mans and infos, but it does not
use rpms.
> > but don't know if there are any
> > options within autoconf to enable this,
> No.
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> > or whether this has to be an
> > additional manual step after running make install...
> Yes. In case of using rpm, it's either rpm which compresses them
> automatically or the rpm's spec which explicitly contains statements to
> gzip them.
I had a look at a Slackware build script, and found the gzip'ing done
there, but it seems to be a natural extension to 'make install'...
Wonder if there is any way to incorporate it.
> Ralf
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John