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Re: pod to man
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Russ Allbery |
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Re: pod to man |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:05:23 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
> * Russ Allbery wrote on Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 05:08:14AM CET:
>> Do you really want to generate separate copies of the man page for each
>> function documented by the same source POD file? It's more normal to
>> generate one copy of the man page and then, during make install,
>> symlink the other ones to the one man page that you generate.
> Man pages have a portable linking mechanism that doesn't require
> symlinks to work: let bar.1 consist of the line
> .so man1/foo.1
> to link it to the foo manpage.
This also works but it's rare to bother with this any more since symlink
support is close to universal.
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Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>