On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, April Chin wrote: > For example, the pcre-config(1) manpage (in pcre 8.30) has this section > > REVISION > > Last updated: 01 January 2012 > > but its footer has an empty Last change date (manpage for pcre installed > on Solaris 11, aka SunOS 5.11): > > SunOS 5.11 Last change: 2
Is that a SunOS thing? On Gentoo Linux the footer contains just PCRE-CONFIG(1) at the right hand side. > The revision date should be added to the .TH line, which currently looks like: > > .TH PCRE-CONFIG 1 > > along with perhaps the string "PCRE <version #>": > > .TH PCRE-CONFIG 1 "01 January 2012" "PCRE 8.30" > > so the page footers would then list the last change date and pcre version: > > PCRE 8.30 Last change: 01 January 2012 2 I will experiment on Linux and see if that works or breaks things or whatever. > It would also be nice to add "Last change" dates in the other manpages > which do not have revision dates listed (e.g., pcre_compile.3, pcre_exec.3, > pcre_version.3, etc.) I guess I never got round to adding revision dates to those, probably because they hardly ever change. Philip -- Philip Hazel -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
