[OE-core] Multilib conflicts in man pages.

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Mar 6 22:00:50 UTC 2020


On Tue, 2020-03-03 at 15:22 -0800, 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.

Could we just put a placeholder into the man page so they'd be
identical? Multiple copies seems like overkill for something as
trivial...

Cheers,

Richard



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