Re: bootstrap/7817: [3.2/3.3 regression] Link to gcc man page in g++ man page incorrect

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>]

On Mar 12, 2003, Steven Bosscher <s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl> wrote:

> Alexandre, does your patch "get g++ man page to point to the right gcc
> man page" (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-03/msg01043.html)
> fix this high priority PR? If  so, can the patch go on the 3.3 branch
> too?

Hmm...  I'm afraid not.  The bug report describes a different problem,
that I wasn't even aware of.  I can't duplicate the problem on my
GNU/Linux box, and IRIX 6.5's man just says it fails to support `.so',
and since I'm mostly clueless as far as man-pages go, I'm not sure
whether .so is supposed to list a pathname relative to the location of
the file that contains the directive or the pathname is searched in
the MANPATH.  Current behavior seems to indicate the latter, but the
bug report seems to imply this is not portable.  Installing the gcc
man-page as g++.1 is probably as good a solution as any.  I don't
quite like the idea of installing a soft-link because soft links are
not that portable, and the fallback on systems that don't support it
is copying, which may not do the right think if g++.1 is installed
before gcc.1.

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