[mplayer-dev-eng] install localized manpages

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:01:59PM +0100, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote:
> 
> >--[Andreas Hess]--<jaska at gmx.net>
> 
> > -	$(INSTALL) -c -m 644 DOCS/mplayer.1 $(MANDIR)/man1/mplayer.1
> > +	$(INSTALL) -c -m 644 DOCS/$(LANGUAGE)/mplayer.1 $(MANDIR)/man1/mplayer.1
> 
> No. You need to install the localized man pages into the proper
> subdirectories, that is, DOCS/$(LANGUAGE)/mplayer.1 into
> $(MANDIR)/$(LANGUAGE)/man1/mplayer.1 and so on. Actually, you could ship
> with all man pages at the same time, because man will automatically select
> the right one.

Huh? I've never heard of this before. It sounds like Linux-specific
nonsense, not a standard behavior of man...

Rich