Re: doc-base control file madness

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

At 08:06 -0800 1999-01-21, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> Is there any way doc-base can provide some kind of macro expansion,
> so I don't have to edit:
>
> /usr/doc/libgtk1.1.13-doc/gtk-faq.html/
> ...
>
> every time I have a new package, instead, doing something like
>
> VERSION=1.1.13
>
> /usr/doc/libgtk${VERSION}-doc/gtk-faq.html/

In glibc I do something (almost exactly) like:

In debian/libc-doc.doc-base.in:

<<
Format: info
Index: @infodir@/libc.info.gz
Files: @infodir@/libc.*

Format: HTML
Index: @docdir@/@glibc@-doc/html/libc_toc.html
Files: @docdir@/@glibc@-doc/html/*.html
> >

Then in debian/rules:

<<
debian/libc-doc.doc-base: debian/libc-doc.doc-base.in
       sed -e 's%@glibc@%$(glibc)%g' -e 's%@infodir@%$(infodir)%g' \
       -e 's%@docdir@%$(docdir)%g' < debian/libc-doc.doc-base.in > \
       debian/libc-doc.doc-base
# Paranoia
	touch $@
> >

Then I have the target that generates the glibc-doc .deb depend on 
the debian/libc-doc.doc-base rule.

And make of course takes care of making sure debian/libc-doc.doc-base 
is up to date with regard to debian/libc-doc.doc-base.in.
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