[cmake-developers] Integration of manpage installation
Werner Mahr
werner at vollstreckernet.de
Tue Jun 7 09:47:46 EDT 2011
Eric Noulard wrote:
>> 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.
> Have a look at the new (in 2.8.4) GnuInstallDirs.cmake module:
>
> http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=3976
This Bug is about Vars for the installation-dirs, I'm thinking about
installation-process.
Usually manpages are named in sources like "cmake.1" and are installed
$mandir/1/cmake
or most often
$mandir/1/cmake.gz
So I want to implement functionality to allow the dwevs to just give the
place of manpage-sources and let cmake do all the steps:
Rename from <appname>.<section> or <appname>.<lang>.<section> to
<appname>
compress to <appname>.gz (maybe configurable)
install to $mandir/<section>/<appname>[.gz] or
$mandir/<section>/<lang>/<appname>[.gz]
If $mandir is given directly or configured in a var like your link
describes doesn't matter in this case. I don't know about other systems
like Linux, so maybe the process is different for other plattforms, but
at least in Linux-systems it would be a great help.
As I started porting amule to cmake I got stuck at exactly that point.
Google just pointed out hits where the poster got told to look how
others did it, but there's no generic solution. I would prefer to
provide such a generic solution instead of reinventing the wheel for
such a common task over and over again.
--
MfG usw.
Werner Mahr
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