Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> writes: > * Russ Allbery wrote on Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 05:08:14AM CET:
>> Do you really want to generate separate copies of the man page for each >> function documented by the same source POD file? It's more normal to >> generate one copy of the man page and then, during make install, >> symlink the other ones to the one man page that you generate. > Man pages have a portable linking mechanism that doesn't require > symlinks to work: let bar.1 consist of the line > .so man1/foo.1 > to link it to the foo manpage. This also works but it's rare to bother with this any more since symlink support is close to universal. -- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
