> > The best way should be automatically converting them by some script > > when building. But if it is too difficult, we can install these files > > as is with minimum adjustments for our system; mandoc still works for > > them, although output is not very beautiful. > > I shouldn't have made the changes here for another reason, as the > manuals are in man1m/$name.1m, it doesn't fit in easily with the > mechanism we have in src/share/mk for installing manuals which assumes > $name.[1-9].
the manual in the tree might be called "foo.1m" by upstream, however, we should just install those into man8/foo.8. be nice to have a generic 1m -> 8 rule here, since i doubt that upstream will change from svr4/solaris naming. .mrg.