Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:44:09 -0800 (PST) From: Donald Burr of Borg <dburr@borg-cube.com> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Call for *quick* review] architecture-specific manpages Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102151142430.73396-100000@borg-cube.com> In-Reply-To: <3A8C2CDC.307458AE@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
MS>> : As some manual pages are intended only for specific architectures,
MS>> : man searches any subdirectories, with the same name as the current
MS>> : architecture, in every directory which it searches. Machine specific
MS>> : areas are checked before general areas. The current machine type may
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MS>> : be overridden by setting the environment variable MACHINE to the name
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MS>> : of a specific architecture.
MS>>
MS>> This would eliminate the need to MLINK every arch-specific file to the
MS>> parent directory, and would allow us to have both architecture-specific
MS>> and generic manpages with the same name in the same section.
MS>>
MS>> Comments?
MS>
MS>Why not to use HW_MACHINE mib to get current arch, so it would just work [tm] w/o the
MS>need to define MACHINE env variable?
Umm, I think you misunderstand. The way I read it, the patches
automatically detect the machine architecture that you're running, but you
can set the MACHINE environment variable to *override* that automatic
detection.
Please note the underlined passage in the quotation.
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