Re: Generating 'cat' pages on make install

[Benoit SIGOURE]

On Nov 4, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Jason Curl wrote:

> So let's assume I've got a command on my build environment
>
> groff -Tascii -mandoc myman.3 | col -b > mycat.3
>
> I might even extend this to generate HTML instead of ASCII.
>
> Later I'd be implementing a Perl script to convert what is in code  
> comments to something else to then generate the man pages. These  
> man pages document an API.
[...]
> Well, may be I'll rephrase the question: Given a list of man pages  
> in my Makefile.am, how can I write or extend automake (hopefully  
> easily) to use that list that is already defined to run a command  
> and copy it somewhere on make install, using the example I've  
> provided?
>
> I'd like to keep it in Automake if possible rather than having  
> preconfigure, postconfigure scripts.

Hi Jason,
there are plenty of scripts to convert man pages to HTML (google:// 
man2html) you don't need to write yours ;)
what I'd do in such a situation is:

--Makefile.am--------------------------------------------------------
man3_MANS = myman.3 foo.3
man1_MANS = otherman.1
html_DATA = $(man3_MANS:.3=.html) $(man1_MANS:.1=.html)

.1.html:
        $(MAN2HTML) $^ -o $@
.3.html:
        $(MAN2HTML) $^ -o $@
---------------------------------------------------------------------

You don't need to change Automake or whatever.  It's pretty simple  
and self-contained.

Cheers,

--
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

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