From owner-cvs-all Mon Dec 11 15:42:37 2000 From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 15:42:34 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail.jeamland.net (rafe.jeamland.net [203.18.243.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C559637B400; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:42:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.jeamland.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6E8A470601; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:42:31 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:42:31 +1100 From: Benno Rice To: Marcel Moolenaar 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> References: <32667.976537170@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> <3A351C56.57965B1C@cup.hp.com> <20001212102049.A492@rafe.jeamland.net> <3A356386.285F8576@cup.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A356386.285F8576@cup.hp.com>; from marcel@cup.hp.com on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 06:30:14PM -0500 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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