[cmake-developers] Integration of manpage installation

[Eric Noulard]

2011/6/7 Werner Mahr <werner at vollstreckernet.de>:
> Hi,
>
> after reading some stuff about integration of KDE-stuff into cmake, I
> want to know your oppinion about manpages. At least on unix-based
> systems it's an essential function of a build-environment to allow
> installation of the docs.
>
> My suggestion is, to add a new property like man-source-dir or somehow
> like that, and all pages in that dir are installed to the right place if
> they start with the name of the corresponding executable.
>
> I would like to discuss that before I start digging into the code, to
> avoid to finish something that you like to have solved in a different
> place.

Have a look at the new (in 2.8.4)  GnuInstallDirs.cmake module:

http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=3976




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