In article <20170222162856.gd6...@tuna.imca.aps.anl.gov>, J. Lewis Muir <jlm...@imca-cat.org> wrote: >Hello! > >The -current make(1) man page says the following in the second paragraph >of the DESCRIPTION section: > > This manual page is intended as a reference document only. For a more > thorough description of make and makefiles, please refer to PMake - A > Tutorial. > >It wasn't immediately clear to me which tutorial this referred to. >Would a patch to change this in the following way be welcome? > > This manual page is intended as a reference document only. For a more > thorough description of make and makefiles, please refer to PMake - A >- Tutorial. >+ Tutorial by Adam de Boor. > >Also, would a patch to add a note or reference indicating that it exists >at /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/tutorial.ms in the following way be >welcome? > > This manual page is intended as a reference document only. For a more > thorough description of make and makefiles, please refer to PMake - A >- Tutorial. >+ Tutorial by Adam de Boor which can be found at >+ /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/tutorial.ms.
That does not exist anymore; it is /usr/share/doc/reference/ref1/make/make.*. What's the precedence for referring to /usr/share/doc from man pages? Should we index doc so that apropos with some flags also looks at the docs? christos
