Tcl Source Code

This patch enhances Tcl's build system to allow
compression manpages and symlinks for crosslinking the
manpages during installation.

Whether the manpages should be symlinked and/or
compressed is controled by two new options to configure:
--enable-symlinks works as a switch to turn on using
symlinks.
--enable-compression takes a mandatory argument which
is the program to use for compression (e.g. compress,
gzip, or bzip2). The file name extension for compressed
files gets detected by mkLinks.

In case this patch gets applied to Tcl, I'll also
create simmilar patches for Tk and other extensions
that cross-link their man pages.

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Integrated in Tcl/Tk 8.4b1

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I've attached a slightly revised version of the patch. The
options are now named --enable-man-compression and
--enable-man-symlinks. I've also put the corresponding patch
for Tk here.

After applying the patches unix/configure and unix/mkLinks
have to be generated.

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Yes, but I wanted to see whether this one would get accepted
for Tcl before starting the work for TK (see the last part
of my description above).
I can create the patche for Tk in a couple of hours if you
like to apply them at once.

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don't we need a patch for Tk too?

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Corrected the category.

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