Re: manpages under i386 sub directory and what about amd64?
Jeremy C. Reed
> mbrlabel manpage references mbr(8). But:
>
> tx:src$ man mbr
> man: no entry for mbr in the manual.
>
> It is at /usr/share/man/man8/i386/mbr.8
>
> I don't see any setting in man.conf or in man manpage about this.
>
> man.conf does say:
>
> If on a machine of type ``vax'', the subdirectory ``vax'' in each
> directory would be searched as well, before the directory was
> searched.
>
> Well that explains that. I am on amd64 not i386. So my system has
> platform specific manpages for 30 different platforms, but none for amd64.
>
> Should the SEE ALSO in mbrlabel(8) mention i386 for the mbr(8)?
>
> This works fine:
>
> man i386/mbr
>
>
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
So I was told about open PR #36350 "Many man pages missing on amd64"
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=36350 which
appears to have a fix (by having a common new category "x86"), but I
haven't tested yet.
What is the status with this?
(I bcc'd the original list I posted this on so others can know where the
conversation moved to. I cc'd port-i386 since this is for i386 man pages
too.)