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+.so @TARGET@
diff --git a/subprojects/exess/doc/c/man/meson.build b/subprojects/exess/doc/c/man/meson.build
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+# Run Sphinx to generate group man pages
+
+# Group man pages generated by Sphinx
+man_pages = [
+  'exess_base64.3',
+  'exess_binary.3',
+  'exess_boolean.3',
+  'exess_coercion.3',
+  'exess_byte.3',
+  'exess_datatypes.3',
+  'exess_date.3',
+  'exess_datetime.3',
+  'exess_decimal.3',
+  'exess_double.3',
+  'exess_duration.3',
+  'exess_float.3',
+  'exess_hex.3',
+  'exess_int.3',
+  'exess_long.3',
+  # 'exess_numbers.3',
+  'exess_short.3',
+  'exess_status.3',
+  'exess_time.3',
+  'exess_timezone.3',
+  'exess_ubyte.3',
+  'exess_uint.3',
+  'exess_ulong.3',
+  'exess_ushort.3',
+  'exess_variant.3',
+]
+
+# Run Sphinx to generate man pages
+man_docs = custom_target(
+  'man pages for exess',
+  command: [sphinx_build, '-M', 'man',
+            meson.current_build_dir() / '..', meson.current_build_dir() / '..',
+            '-E', '-q', '-t', 'man'],
+  input: [c_rst_files, c_exess_rst, c_index_xml],
+  output: man_pages,
+  build_by_default: true,
+  install: true,
+  install_dir: get_option('mandir') / 'man3')
+
+
+
+# message(man_docs.extract_all_objects())
+
+# foreach man_page : man_pages
+#   install_man(man_docs[0])#meson.current_build_dir() / man_page)
+# endforeach
+
+# "Links" from symbol names to corresponding page (one-line includes)
+man_links = [
+  ['ExessStatus.3', 'exess_status.3'],
+  ['ExessResult.3', 'exess_status.3'],
+  ['exess_strerror.3', 'exess_status.3'],
+  ['exess_read_decimal.3', 'exess_decimal.3'],
+  ['exess_write_decimal.3', 'exess_decimal.3'],
+  ['exess_read_double.3', 'exess_double.3'],
+  ['exess_write_double.3', 'exess_double.3'],
+  ['exess_read_float.3', 'exess_float.3'],
+  ['exess_write_float.3', 'exess_float.3'],
+  ['exess_read_boolean.3', 'exess_boolean.3'],
+  ['exess_write_boolean.3', 'exess_boolean.3'],
+  ['exess_read_long.3', 'exess_long.3'],
+  ['exess_write_long.3', 'exess_long.3'],
+  ['exess_read_int.3', 'exess_int.3'],
+  ['exess_write_int.3', 'exess_int.3'],
+  ['exess_read_short.3', 'exess_short.3'],
+  ['exess_write_short.3', 'exess_short.3'],
+  ['exess_read_byte.3', 'exess_byte.3'],
+  ['exess_write_byte.3', 'exess_byte.3'],
+  ['exess_read_ulong.3', 'exess_ulong.3'],
+  ['exess_write_ulong.3', 'exess_ulong.3'],
+  ['exess_read_uint.3', 'exess_uint.3'],
+  ['exess_write_uint.3', 'exess_uint.3'],
+  ['exess_read_ushort.3', 'exess_ushort.3'],
+  ['exess_write_ushort.3', 'exess_ushort.3'],
+  ['exess_read_ubyte.3', 'exess_ubyte.3'],
+  ['exess_write_ubyte.3', 'exess_ubyte.3'],
+  ['ExessDuration.3', 'exess_duration.3'],
+  ['exess_read_duration.3', 'exess_duration.3'],
+  ['exess_write_duration.3', 'exess_duration.3'],
+  ['ExessDateTime.3', 'exess_datetime.3'],
+  ['exess_read_datetime.3', 'exess_datetime.3'],
+  ['exess_write_datetime.3', 'exess_datetime.3'],
+  ['ExessTimezone.3', 'exess_timezone.3'],
+  ['ExessDate.3', 'exess_date.3'],
+  ['exess_read_date.3', 'exess_date.3'],
+  ['exess_write_date.3', 'exess_date.3'],
+  ['ExessTime.3', 'exess_time.3'],
+  ['exess_read_time.3', 'exess_time.3'],
+  ['exess_write_time.3', 'exess_time.3'],
+  ['ExessBlob.3', 'exess_binary.3'],
+  ['ExessDatatype.3', 'exess_datatypes.3'],
+  ['ExessValue.3', 'exess_variant.3'],
+  ['ExessVariant.3', 'exess_variant.3'],
+  ['exess_read_variant.3', 'exess_variant.3'],
+  ['exess_write_variant.3', 'exess_variant.3'],
+  ['exess_write_canonical.3', 'exess_variant.3'],
+  ['ExessCoercionFlag.3', 'exess_variant.3'],
+  ['ExessCoercionFlags.3', 'exess_variant.3'],
+  ['exess_coerce.3', 'exess_variant.3'],
+]
+
+foreach man_link : man_links
+  link = man_link[0]
+  target = man_link[1]
+
+  config = configuration_data()
+  config.set('TARGET', target)
+
+  manlink = configure_file(configuration: config,
+                           input: 'manlink.in',
+                           output: link,
+                           install: true,
+                           install_dir: get_option('mandir') / 'man3')
+
+  # message(target)
+
+  # install_man(manlink)
+endforeach