Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 21:24:12 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Call for *quick* review] architecture-specific manpages Message-ID: <3A8C2CDC.307458AE@FreeBSD.org> References: <20010215211404.A44780@sunbay.com>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > [Bcc'ed to -developers] > > Hi! > > The attached patch implements one nice feature of original BSD man(1), > to look into the machine-specific subdirectory, specifically: > > : As some manual pages are intended only for specific architectures, > : man searches any subdirectories, with the same name as the current > : architecture, in every directory which it searches. Machine specific > : areas are checked before general areas. The current machine type may > : be overridden by setting the environment variable MACHINE to the name > : of a specific architecture. > > This would eliminate the need to MLINK every arch-specific file to the > parent directory, and would allow us to have both architecture-specific > and generic manpages with the same name in the same section. > > Comments? Why not to use HW_MACHINE mib to get current arch, so it would just work [tm] w/o the need to define MACHINE env variable? -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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