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Re: variable path names in manpages



On Thu, 10 May 2001, Manfred Wassmann wrote:

> I'm currently writing a manpage which is to be used in a Debian package,
> but not exclusively.  To be most flexible I want to use variables for path
> names that are expanded at build time.  Is there any standard or
> recommended way implement this?  

If you're using autoconf, you can have a prog.1.in file that you can have
configure process just like all those Makefile.in files to generate a
prog.1 along with the Makefiles. (wine uses this technique)



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