Re: variable path names in manpages
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Ove Kaaven wrote:
> 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)
Thanks. Though autoconf isn't used it can't hurt to be compatible :-)
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+++ I18N ? For international language set LANG=POSIX +++
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