[OE-core] Multilib conflicts in man pages.

[Jeremy A. Puhlman]

On 3/6/2020 2:00 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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...

A placeholder like:
/usr/<system libdir>/sys.startxrc
from
/usr/lib64/sys.startxrc


> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>

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Jeremy A. Puhlman
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