Re: Wish: Better support for translated manual pages

[Martin Dickopp <firefly-mail at gmx dot net>]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 08:35:01AM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Martin Dickopp wrote:
> >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?
>
> 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.

Good point. What about putting the language after the section, possibly
separated by a `-' or `_' character? Automake currently wouldn't
consider `1de' a valid section, so this shouldn't conflict with pre-
existing practice.

Martin