be consistent with man page suffixes

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Tue Jan 23 18:07:15 PST 2007


Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I see libXi was patched for
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7855
> 
> It appears it was decided that the suffix "should be 3 for everyone". For 
> example:
> 
>   .SH "SEE ALSO"
>  -XGrabDevice(3X11)
>  +XGrabDevice(3)
> 
> But we still have the __LIB_MAN_SUFFIX__ that can be customized (and if I 
> read it right, it is "3x" for Linux and Debian's BSD).
> 
> This should be done consistent. Either always use one section name or 
> always use the macro.

You're right - I missed that when I integrated the provided patch.
Sorry about that.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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