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Re: man pages not renamed as documented
From: |
Tom Tromey |
Subject: |
Re: man pages not renamed as documented |
Date: |
13 Apr 2002 14:44:20 -0600 |
>>>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:
Docs> For instance, consider this example:
Docs> man1_MANS = rename.man thesame.1 alsothesame.1c
Docs> In this case, `rename.man' will be renamed to `rename.1' when
Docs> installed, but the other files will keep their names.
The documentation describes what we want.
adl> Either Automake or it's documentation is broken. I guess nobody
adl> relies on `rename.man' being renamed as `rename.1' (Has it ever
adl> worked? AFAICT it doesn't work in Automake 1.4 either).
It might not ever have worked.
adl> Is this worth supporting unused features, or shall we simply fix
adl> the doc?
I'd prefer we keep the feature. I designed it this way to support
what I perceived as existing practice.
Tom