Re: Strange manpage symlink description.1.gz -> infotocap.1.gz

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Sven Joachim" <svenjoac@gmx.de>
| To: "Ncurses Mailing List" <bug-ncurses@gnu.org>
| Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2023 7:15:21 AM
| Subject: Strange manpage symlink description.1.gz -> infotocap.1.gz

| Trying out the latest patchlevel I noticed that a strange manpage
| symlink is installed:
| 
| ,----
|| $ ./configure --prefix=/tmp/ncurses && make install
|| [...]
|| installing /tmp/ncurses/share/man/man1/infocmp.1.gz
|| installing /tmp/ncurses/share/man/man1/infotocap.1.gz
|| .. installing alias description.1.gz

now that you mention it, I saw it in a log, but in a later build (iirc) it went 
away

|| [...]
|| $ ls -l /tmp/ncurses/share/man/man1/{description,infotocap}.1.gz
|| lrwxrwxrwx 1 sven sven   14 10. Dez 13:02
|| /tmp/ncurses/share/man/man1/description.1.gz -> infotocap.1.gz
|| -rw-r--r-- 1 sven sven 1705 10. Dez 13:02
|| /tmp/ncurses/share/man/man1/infotocap.1.gz
| `----
| 
| This must have been introduced recently, after the 20231121 patchlevel.
| How come?

it's unintentional: my sed script relies upon having only one line after "\-" 
in the NAME section.

The text in that file looks like this:

.ds d /usr/local/ncurses/share/terminfo                                         
.SH NAME                                                                        
\fB\%infotocap\fP \-                                                            
convert a \fI\%terminfo\fR description into a \fI\%termcap\fR                   
description
.SH SYNOPSIS

(I'll update my check-manpage script to catch these)

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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