Re: makemandb errors on 6.0_BETA

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 02:40:57PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 01:54:14PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > Most Linux distributions are automatically replacing .so usage with
> > symlinks for the reasons discussed elsewhere already, so they don't see
> > this. As such, I'm more inclined to lean on the CS part :)
> 
> Ok, so here are two possible solutions for neon in particular. Both work.
> 
> 1: replace .so-only files with symlinks before installation;
> disadvantage: install copies the linked files instead of the symlinks.
> 
> 2: replace .so-only files with symlinks after installation;
> disadvantage: for people not using DESTDIR, it might replace other
> package's symlink-only files.
> 
> I prefer 2.

I prefer neither. Just patch the man pages to use the correct path for
.so, the rest will follow later.

Joerg