Re: Filename extension guidelines and man page symlinks

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Roy,

* Roy Hills wrote on Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 12:21:39PM CEST:
> [...]  is it possible to configure automake so that "make install"
> will create a man page symlink, so it is accessible as either "man
> foo" or "man foo.pl"?

Beside the good answer Bob already gave: I believe the proper way to do
"symlinking" of man pages is still to create a one-line file target.1
with contents
  .so man1/source.1

(and to install that as well, of course).

Cheers,
Ralf