Subject: Re: bin/12390: crypto docs (openssl, ...) do not exist
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
From: Jim Bernard <jbernard@mines.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/13/2001 08:22:04
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:47:34PM -0800, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:30:48PM -0700, Jim Bernard wrote:
> 
>  >   Curiously, locate succeeds in finding quite a bit of documentation
>  > for openssl.  So it seems there's also a problem with 'man -k'.  Here's
>  > the installed subset of docs that "locate openssl" found for me:
> 
> The problem is probably that the OpenSSL manual pages don't have the
> correct format for getNAME(8) to work properly.  This will cause the
> makewhatis(8) command to miss them.

  Something like that.  It looks to me like the problem is that makewhatis
is groveling through the formatted man pages looking for the word NAME
with each letter overstruck just once, but the crypto docs are produced
with triple overstriking, which is not recognized.