manpages-oops & malloc problem

[Donnie Berkholz]

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Mike A. Harris wrote:
| The only specific example I'm aware of currently, is the mouse(4)
| manpage, which exists in both X, and in the system man-pages package.
| All of the X driver manpages are named the same name of the driver,
| which is a convenience, so it would be nice to keep this convention
| for the X driver manpages.  Another option would be to get the other
| 'mouse' manpage renamed in the upstream source for man-pages, however
| the other page has been named that as long as I can remember.

We've uncommented the single line in xorg-macros.m4 to name man4 pages
with 4x. But the other problems you mentioned about actually finding the
page without knowing of it remain.

| I think we should reinvestigate this for X11R7.1 however.  I think
| the best solution would be one that provides X.Org to give a set of
| default dirs, and default suffixes for all manpage sections, and have
| that stored in a pkgconfig file.  Then have all of the other packages
| read the mandirs/mansuffixes via pkgconfig.  This way a distribution
| can customize the manpage install locations by making a single change
| in one place, without having to make additional changes to all of the
| other packages throughout the X release.  If people think this is
| a reasonable solution, I'll go ahead and implement it in the new year,
| and submit a patch.

Sounds good to me.

| Another possibility, would be having per-distribution tweaks for these
| locations present right in the upstream packaging, as was done in
| X11R6 et al. via the Imake linux.cf file.  LinuxDebian, LinuxRedHat,
| LinuxSlackware, etc..

If it's easy to change the actual options, I'd rather not get into this
mess again.

Thanks,
Donnie
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