[bug #62553] ship man page symlinks or `so` stubs for g-prefixed commands

[G. Branden Robinson]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62553>

                 Summary: ship man page symlinks or `so` stubs for g-prefixed
commands
                 Project: GNU troff
               Submitter: gbranden
               Submitted: Tue 31 May 2022 10:02:35 PM UTC
                Category: General
                Severity: 1 - Wish
              Item Group: Documentation
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None


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Date: Tue 31 May 2022 10:02:35 PM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Our Texinfo manual always (modulo errors of oversight) refers to groff
commands that had Unix counterparts with a "g" prefix.  It also makes several
references to those man pages, and this number will increase as I work on bug
#60061.

It's going to be frustrating for users on systems without a "traditional"
troff installation--which is probably most of them--to type, say, "man gtbl"
and get back nothing useful.

Since we already check for such an existing installation at configuration time
<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/m4/groff.m4#n1053>, we can
use its absence to update installation targets to installs symlinks or stub
man pages.







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