cvs commit: src/share/man/man4/man4.i386 ct.4

Ruslan Ermilov ru at FreeBSD.org
Wed Mar 10 07:12:59 PST 2004


On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 07:35:14AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20040306.214705.109508001.non at ever.sanda.gr.jp>
>             non at ever.sanda.gr.jp writes:
> : From: Roman Kurakin <rik at cronyx.ru>
> : Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 15:31:06 +0300
> : > M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : > 
> : > >Maybe just a simple note in non-san's ct.4 man page would solve this
> : > >for now, and a greater attention to avoid clashes in the future.
> : > >
> : > Why not to create man4.pc98?
> : 
> : I am not sure here, but my guess is, we have several man pages which
> : are shared between i386/i386 and i386/pc98. So if we just create
> : man4.pc98 just like other architectures, we will have to copy and
> : maintain those pages.
> 
> We can easily 'reach over' in the Makefile for man4.pc98 for the list
> of things that's shared.
> 
I'd also need to patch man(1) to support this.  A better approach
(for now) would be to install one or another manpage based on the
current ${MACHINE} value.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
FreeBSD committer
ru at FreeBSD.org
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