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| author | Jason Woodward <woodwardj@jaos.org> | 2021-02-21 23:46:20 -0500 |
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| committer | Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> | 2021-02-27 14:35:23 +0200 |
| commit | 50af09de031c8d003cd9e6afb44b774620b45696 (patch) | |
| tree | 52e16c84d9f9b851a05307e4fa4f053e44bab00c /docs | |
| parent | 0047f7439c6bafe964438e2c59a3686201ff24c0 (diff) | |
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install_man locale support
Rather than having to manually build the locale aware man paths with
`install_data('foo.fr.1', install_dir: join_paths(get_option('mandir'), 'fr', 'man1'), rename: 'foo.1')`
Support doing
`install_man('foo.fr.1', locale: 'fr')`
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/snippets/install_man_locale.md | 9 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index 4c30ddd..e299be8 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -1133,6 +1133,11 @@ Accepts the following keywords: format and optionally the owner/uid and group/gid for the installed files. An example value could be `['rwxr-sr-x', 'root', 'root']`. +- `locale` *(since 0.58.0)*: can be used to specify the locale into which the + man page will be installed within the manual page directory tree. + An example manual might be `foo.fr.1` with a locale of `fr`, such + that `{mandir}/{locale}/man{num}/foo.1` becomes the installed file. + *(since 0.49.0)* [manpages are no longer compressed implicitly][install_man_49]. diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/install_man_locale.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/install_man_locale.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..76b7967 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/install_man_locale.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +## Specify man page locale during installation + +Locale directories can now be passed to `install_man`: + +```meson +# instead of +# install_data('foo.fr.1', install_dir: join_paths(get_option('mandir'), 'fr', 'man1'), rename: 'foo.1')` +install_man('foo.fr.1', locale: 'fr') +``` |