Missing as man page

David Taylor davidt at yadt.co.uk
Thu Aug 14 07:13:25 PDT 2003


On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:01:16PM +1000, Ashley Fox wrote:
> > Hi,
> > This might be, or might not be a bug.
> > I noticed from FreeBSD 5.0 onwards there is no man page
> > for the GNU assembler as.
> > 
> > I verified this by using the online man page viewer on FreeBSD.org
> > 
> > Maybe this is intentional, i dont know.
> > 
> $ uname -sr
> FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT
> $ whatis 'as\(1'
> as(1), AS(1)             - the portable GNU assembler
> 

It may exist on your (and my) system, but it doesn't appear to be getting
installed by a buildworld.

-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  1941 Aug 11 15:19 apply.1.gz
-r--r--r--   2 root  wheel   671 Aug 11 15:17 apropos.1.gz
-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  5684 Aug 11 15:16 ar.1.gz
-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  3031 Apr 12  2001 as.1.gz
-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  1532 Aug 11 15:19 asa.1.gz
-r--r--r--   4 root  wheel  3094 Aug 11 15:19 at.1.gz

It also doesn't exist on the online man page viewer for any 5.x branches,
whilst -STABLE is fine.

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David Taylor
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