GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 650004
name of man page files is not constructed correctly
Last modified: 2013-05-19 12:35:30 UTC
folowing comment: /** \page a-b.c a-b.c A test page for man pages. */ with Doxyfile with MAN settings: GENERATE_MAN = YES MAN_OUTPUT = man MAN_EXTENSION = .8 MAN_LINKS = NO generates file named "a-b_8c.8" in "man/man8/": .TH "a-b_8c" 8 "Wed May 11 2011" "CMS Core" \" -*- nroff -*- .ad l .nh .SH NAME a-b_8c \- a-b.c A test page for man pages. Expected file name is "a-b.c.8" (like request-key.conf.5 for request-key.conf ) .TH "a-b.c" 8 "Wed May 11 2011" "CMS Core" \" -*- nroff -*- .ad l .nh .SH NAME a-b.c \- a-b.c A test page for man pages.
Created attachment 237665 [details] comment file illustrating man page name issue
Created attachment 237666 [details] Doxyfile for generating man pages
Created attachment 237667 [details] dottedMan.dox - another comment file
Issue is still present in 1.8.3.1 . version 1.7.2 was showing same behavior. Version 1.3.9.1 was behaving correctly.
Created attachment 238509 [details] [review] PATCH to enable . (dots) in page names for man pages In case man pages are generated there were page identifiers with a . (dot) in it this . (dot) was replaced by _8. This made it very inconvenient in use. This patch enables the possibility to use a . (dot) in these cases.
Thanks, I'll include the patch in the next subversion update.
This bug was previously marked ASSIGNED, which means it should be fixed in doxygen version 1.8.4. Please verify if this is indeed the case. Reopen the bug if you think it is not fixed and please include any additional information that you think can be relevant.