On 3 August 2015 at 01:40, Rob Browning <r...@defaultvalue.org> wrote: > - There's an easy way to ask specifically for the "foo X" pages. I > suppose X might be program specific, but all of the values I can > think of right now are of the form N or N.M. (i.e. GCC 5.0, Python > 2.7, Python 3.4, Emacs 24.4 (or just 24?)), etc.
A good start would to find a way to get "make install" for Automake build systems to heed the --program-suffix configure option for Info files. I was concerned that this might not be appropriate, pertaining only to executable programs, but it transpires that this option takes effect for at least man pages in addition to programs, so there's no reason why it wouldn't be desirable behaviour for similar to be done for Info files. Suppose you configure with "./configure --program-suffix=-5.2" and there is an installable Info file "texinfo.info": ideally, the file would be installed as "texinfo-5.2.info", and be accessible with "info texinfo-5.2". Moreover, there should be some transformation of the dir entry from this: * texindex: (texinfo)Format with tex/texindex. Sort Texinfo index files. to this: * texindex-5.2: (texinfo-5.2)Format with tex/texindex. Sort Texinfo index files. which would be achieved with an extra option to install-info. (Then "info texindex-5.2" would work.) Perhaps install-info could also add a symlink from texinfo.info to texinfo-5.2.info if no file texinfo.info exists already. I've been looking at how the name transformation is done in some Automake-generated makefiles, and I haven't come up with an idiomatic way to change the makefile behaviour to do this. I'll think about it a bit more, but we might need changes to Automake, which would be a downside because we'd need a new release of Automake to happen and for that to be the release that people use, which would take time. I'm wondering if we can kill two birds with one stone here and get install-info to actually install the Info file as part of the solution. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
