[OE-core] Multilib conflicts in man pages.

Jeremy A. Puhlman jpuhlman at mvista.com
Fri Mar 6 18:48:35 UTC 2020


Anyone have a thought?

On 3/3/2020 3:22 PM, Jeremy Puhlman wrote:
> Is there a preferred method in oe-core for dealing with man pages that 
> conflict due to differences
> in multilib pathing.
>
> For example an application lives in /usr/lib/foo/bar for one abi but 
> /usr/lib64/foo/bar in another, and
> that kind of information is encoded in to the man pages.
>
> Some things i have seen done in the past, is move the man pages under 
> /user/share/man/${PN} or
> use something like mutlilib script to deal with it.
>
> I am just curious if there is a canned, preferred way the project 
> handles those or wants to handle them?
>
> xinit, xserver-org, and groff each exhibit  these issues.
>

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