From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 8 15:27:01 2005 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA1A016A4CE for <current@FreeBSD.org>; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:27:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postfix3-1.free.fr (postfix3-1.free.fr [213.228.0.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40EDD43D41 for <current@FreeBSD.org>; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:27:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (vol75-8-82-233-239-98.fbx.proxad.net [82.233.239.98]) by postfix3-1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D906A1734B5 for <current@FreeBSD.org>; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 16:26:59 +0100 (CET) Received: by tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5D713407C; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 16:26:58 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 16:26:58 +0100 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> To: current@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20050308152658.GP94451@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Subject: Re: gcc(1) manpage (was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sig.c) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current <freebsd-current.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>, <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>, <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:27:01 -0000 This message appeared on cvs-src@ and should be on -current@ ----- Forwarded message from Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> ----- Subject: Re: gcc(1) manpage (was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sig.c) From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:31:26 +0100 To: Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Hi, > This version number in the gcc(1) manpage is really the least of the > problems... The GCC guys don't maintain the manpage anymore, as they > prefer the info page to document things now. The gcc(1) manpage hasn't > been updated since _long_. In short, it's not only a matter of getting > the latest manpage from the GCC project, it's a matter of synchronizing > this manpage with the (huge) GCC info page and it's a significant job. I would take advantage of this thread to ask what people think about converting gcc(1) info page to a manual page. Of course, this manual page wouldn't be very academic but IMHO, it would keep the Unix tradition of having a single manual page containing all informations about the software. It appears there is a tool called info2man [1] : this is a Perl script that first use info2pod and then pod2man. I agree this is ugly, but modulo some tweaks, the result seems to be quite readable [2] as a manual page. Juste my 2 cents :-). Regards, [1] ports/textproc/info2man [2] http://jeremie.le-hen.org/~tataz/gcc_info2man/gcc.1 http://jeremie.le-hen.org/~tataz/gcc_info2man/gcc.txt -- Jeremie Le Hen jeremie at le-hen dot org _______________________________________________ cvs-src@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-src To unsubscribe, send any mail to "cvs-src-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Jeremie Le Hen jeremie at le-hen dot org