Re: 'toolman_MANS' not supported?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Harald,

* Harald Dunkel wrote on Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 01:04:25PM CEST:
>
> I have to install several  manpages in separate
> subdirectories. But it seems that something like
>
>       toolmandir = ${prefix}/tooldir/man
>       toolman_MANS = hello.1
>
> does not work. Did I miss something in the documentation
> here? (I am using Automake 1.9.6.)

I think <http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Man-pages>
states that only manSECTIONdir is allowed, for a valid section named
SECTION.

I'd be curious as to what advantage there is to install manpages in a
location where the man program will not find them by default?

Cheers,
Ralf