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Re: man_MANS install locations
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Russ Allbery |
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Re: man_MANS install locations |
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Wed, 31 Aug 2022 19:27:08 -0700 |
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Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281@gmail.com> writes:
> This would be adapting to platform-specific requirements. I suspect
> that Solaris man(1) will not look for svcadm.1m in man1 at all but only
> in man1m.
I would recommend testing that if you haven't, since I would have assumed
the opposite. I'm fairly sure that, back when I was actively maintaining
and installing software on Solaris, I never bothered with separate
directories for the lettered subsections, and it never caused problems.
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Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>