Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:51:41 +0600 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> To: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .so macro in man pages Message-ID: <20041117155141.GA54101@regency.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <84dead7204111704502a0b6765@mail.gmail.com> References: <20041117115501.GA81934@regency.nsu.ru> <84dead7204111704502a0b6765@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 06:20:29PM +0530, Joseph Koshy wrote: > > what is proper way of linking manpages in our world? > > You may want to look at the 'MLINKS' make macro > (see /usr/src/share/man/man?/Makefile for examples). I'm afraid that's not exactly what I seek. With MLINKS, you can have several manpages being mutual hardlinks. While this saves even more space compared to tiny manpage which contains only `.so man1/foo', I'd like to know why the latter method didn't work for me as expected, just for the reference. Thanks. ./danfe
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