Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:42:31 +1100 From: Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4/man4.alpha linux.4 Makefile Message-ID: <20001212104230.B492@rafe.jeamland.net> In-Reply-To: <3A356386.285F8576@cup.hp.com>; from marcel@cup.hp.com on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 06:30:14PM -0500 References: <32667.976537170@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> <3A351C56.57965B1C@cup.hp.com> <20001212102049.A492@rafe.jeamland.net> <3A356386.285F8576@cup.hp.com>
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On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 06:30:14PM -0500, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Benno Rice wrote: [snip] > > Why not put a section in the man page listing what architectures have > > support? > > It's a solution, but it seems strange to be able to do `man foo' only to > find out at the end that everything you just read doesn't apply to you > (assuming the section is at the end :-) > > How has NetBSD solved this? In NetBSD's share/man/man8/compat_linux.8: .Nm compat_linux .Nd setup procedure for running Linux binaries .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nx supports running Linux binaries. This only applies to i386 systems for now. Both the a.out and ELF binary formats are supported. ... That's about the first thing it says. -- Benno Rice benno@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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