We keep them as .so "includes" in our source code, but if some distribution wants to have them as symlinks in their filesystem, make it easy for them to install as such, by specifying 'LINK_PAGES=symlink'. Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Hi! I'm going to add support for installing link pages as symlinks. Debian installs them this way, so I think it makes sense to help distributors use our upstream build system to install in their preferred way, since otherwise, to be more useful. Here's the implementation I came up with, but I'd like to hear comments about the interface (the LINK_PAGES variable). Would you make it different? Thanks! Alex lib/cmd.mk | 1 + lib/install-man.mk | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/cmd.mk b/lib/cmd.mk index 17f3a8ee5..9cd09fe89 100644 --- a/lib/cmd.mk +++ b/lib/cmd.mk @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ GREP := grep GZIP := gzip HEAD := head INSTALL := install +LN := ln LOCALE := locale PKG-CONFIG := pkg-config SED := sed diff --git a/lib/install-man.mk b/lib/install-man.mk index 174f503ca..aaa545290 100644 --- a/lib/install-man.mk +++ b/lib/install-man.mk @@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ include $(srcdir)/lib/install.mk include $(srcdir)/lib/src.mk +LINK_PAGES := so # Alternatives: "so", "symlink" + + mandir := $(datarootdir)/man man1dir := $(mandir)/man1 man2dir := $(mandir)/man2 @@ -147,6 +150,12 @@ $(_manpages): -e '/^\.so /s, man7/\(.*\)\.7$$, $(notdir $(man7dir))/\1$(man7ext),' \ -e '/^\.so /s, man8/\(.*\)\.8$$, $(notdir $(man8dir))/\1$(man8ext),' \ $@ +ifeq ($(LINK_PAGES),symlink) + if $(GREP) '^\.so ' <$@ >/dev/null; then \ + $(SED) 's,^\.so \(.*\),../\1,' <$@ \ + | $(XARGS) -I tgt $(LN) -fsT tgt $@; \ + fi +endif $(_mandirs): %/.: | $$(dir %). $(_mandir)/. -- 2.39.2
