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name: install_man
returns: void
description: |
Installs the specified man files from the source tree into system's man directory
during the install step. This directory can be
overridden by specifying it with the `install_dir` keyword argument.
*(since 0.49.0)* [manpages are no longer compressed implicitly][install_man_49].
[install_man_49]:
https://mesonbuild.com/Release-notes-for-0-49-0.html#manpages-are-no-longer-compressed-implicitly
varargs:
name: file
type: file | str
description: Man pages to install.
kwargs:
install_mode:
type: list[str | int]
since: 0.47.0
description: |
Specify the file mode in symbolic format
and optionally the owner/uid and group/gid for the installed files.
See the `install_mode` kwarg of [[install_data]] for more information.
install_dir:
type: str
description: Where to install to.
locale:
type: str
since: 0.58.0
description: |
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.