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On Thu 07 Aug 2014 18:43:34 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > (1) Should we support out of the box distinct targets to be installed > > at the same prefix? > > (2) Should the name of some of those files match the name of > > the executable? > > > > For (1), I'm leaning towards a "not necessary", but we can perhaps > > find a middle ground. I don't know the various defaults to really > > help making a decision without spending some time to look at it. > > Either way, I have a fairly neutral opinion, so I am happy following > > the group. > > > > For (2), I thought that for the man page, and (to some degree, since > > I know little about info) the "info" page as well. But again, > > I don't really have much of opinion on that. > > But "info FOO" does not mean "show me the file FOO", it means "show me > the manual whose DIR entry is FOO". (Although the stand-alone Info > reader falls back to the file interpretation if it doesn't find FOO in > the DIR menu.) > > And the Info system doesn't really support more than one manual for > the same tool anyway. > > So I think, unlike the man pages, the Info manual should not be > renamed. yes, you'd actually have to rewrite the base node name so that instead of identifying itself as "gdb" it'd be "${target}-gdb" (i.e. apply the program transformation). then doing `info sh4-linux-gnu-gdb` would give you the correct man page. this matches the man page behavior where you can do `man sh4-linux-gnu-gdb` and such. -mike
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