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Re: [Groff] all man-pages with section number


From: Bertrand Garrigues
Subject: Re: [Groff] all man-pages with section number
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 23:34:13 +0200
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Hi Bernd,

On Thu, Aug 27 2015 at 11:15:44 AM, "Bernd Warken" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Von: "Bertrand Garrigues" <address@hidden>
>>
>> It works fine for me.  However we now have 3 indentical rules to
>> generated man files in Makefile.am.  As Keith suggested, we could
>> simplify by writing a single rule (.[157].man -> .[157]) and get rid of
>> the .n files by building directly .1, .5 and .7 files instead.
>> 
>> Here is a patch that makes this enhancement, make install/uninstall,
>> distcheck works for me.  I've also tested the case of an existing troff
>> installed on the system (where some man files have a 'g' prefix).  Could
>> you please test? If it's OK on your side I'll commit this change.
>
> Your patch is ingeneous, thanx.  With that it will be possible to have 
> groff.1.man and groff.7.man on the same directory.
>
> Please install it.  But as I'm working today (Thursday) at several GIT
> updates, please wait with the install to tomorrow (Friday).
>

You already commited the patch with commit
9d885c6b342f71594af5d45f37ce65c121641e25.  Everything works OK on the
trunk up to date, but I think you should add a brief description of the
simplification of the man files generation in the Changelog file.


Regards,

--
Bertrand Garrigues



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