clever man page install?

[Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-]

Is there a more elegant way of dealing with man pages other then:

$(MANDIR)/man1/%.1: %.1
        $(INSTALL) -v -m664 $(<) $(@)

$(MANDIR)/man2/%.2: %.2
        $(INSTALL) -v -m664 $(<) $(@)

$(MANDIR)/man3/%.3: %.3
        $(INSTALL) -v -m664 $(<) $(@)
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$(MANDIR)/man9/%.9: %.9
        $(INSTALL) -v -m664 $(<) $(@)

I hoped to do something like:

$(MAN_TARGETS): $(notdir $(@))
        $(INSTALL) -v -m664 $(notdir $(@)) $(@)

But gmake doesn't treat the $(notdir $(@)) like a dependency (just as
the documentation says it won't).

It would be really cool if I could do:

$(MANDIR)/man(\d)/(.*).(\d): $2.$3
        $(INSTALL) -v -m664 $(<) $(@)

But that's just perl-influenced wishing. ;-)

Michael Sterrett
  -Mr. Bones.-
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