Re: Wish: Better support for translated manual pages

[Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple dot dallas dot tx dot us>]

With your scheme, how should the manual page "ld.so.8" (the manual 
page for the Solaris run-time linker) be handled?  Would it be 
installed in @mandir@/so/man8/ld.8 by mistake?  This is just an 
example which shows that there may be pre-existing use of the naming 
pattern.

Bob

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Martin Dickopp wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to have better support for translated manual pages.
> In a possible implementation,
>
>    man_MANS = foo.1 foo.de.1
>
> would install `foo.1' as `@mandir@/man1/foo.1' and `foo.de.1' as
> `@mandir@/de/man1/foo.1'. Would you consider a patch to that effect?
>
> Right now, I use a separate directory and Makefile for each language.
> The `Makefile.am' contains, for example
>
>    mandir = @mandir@/de
>    man_MANS = foo.1
>
> I find that difficult to maintain. Is there an easier way, which
> requires only one Makefile for all languages?
>
> Thanks,
> Martin

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