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Re: Filename extension guidelines and man page symlinks
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: Filename extension guidelines and man page symlinks |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:48:25 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.11 |
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