From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24034 invoked by alias); 12 Mar 2003 07:16:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-prs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-prs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 24016 invoked by uid 71); 12 Mar 2003 07:16:00 -0000 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 07:16:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20030312071600.24013.qmail@sources.redhat.com> To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org, From: Alexandre Oliva Subject: Re: bootstrap/7817: [3.2/3.3 regression] Link to gcc man page in g++ man page incorrect Reply-To: Alexandre Oliva X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg00652.txt.bz2 List-Id: The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/7817; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Alexandre Oliva To: Steven Bosscher Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, backes@rhrk.uni-kl.de, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, nobody@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: bootstrap/7817: [3.2/3.3 regression] Link to gcc man page in g++ man page incorrect Date: 12 Mar 2003 04:05:33 -0300 On Mar 12, 2003, Steven Bosscher 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. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer