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Re: manpages containing "."
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- Subject: Re: manpages containing "."
- From: Tim Sutherland <timsuth at ihug dot co dot nz>
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 20:48:36 +1300
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On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 02:49:30PM +1300, Tim Sutherland wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> I wish to install a manpage "connect.sh.1". Unfortunately, with
> man_MANS = connect.sh.1
> the page is instead installed as "sh/man1/connect.1". I want
> "man1/connect.sh.1".
>
> How could I get around this problem? (Other than renaming the man page so
> it does not contain a ".").
After Tom Tromey pointed out to me in private email that he could not see
why that behaviour would occur, I discovered that it was debhelper (a
debian package thing) that was causing the problem, not automake.
Automake does the right thing. My apologies for the error.