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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 08:57:49AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> ----- 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

it's still here (looking at my test-package for manpages)
 
> || [...]
> || $ 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)

with that update, I see only this instance reported

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

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