Re: makemandb errors on 6.0_BETA

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:49:25PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:09:54PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:22:40AM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > > > # cat  /usr/pkg/man/man3/ne_addr_first.3
> > > > .so ne_addr_resolve.3
> > > > #
> > > > 
> > > > /usr/pkg/man/man3/ne_addr_resolve.3 exists.
> > > 
> > > Right, that's bogus. They should refer to man3/...
> > 
> > I didn't find documentation for ".so". But why would it look in ".."
> > and not in "." as you seem to suggest? I can't believe it has
> > /usr/pkg/man hardwired...
> 
> The short answer is that it doesn't. man executes the format filter from
> the man directory, e.g. it calls "mandoc man3/ne_addr_first.3".

Assuming that the neon developers are not completely stupid, this
probably works on Linux. So should we change man(1) to call the format
filter from man3?
 Thomas