[GRASS5] Re: [GRASS-CVS] paul: grass/mk Makefile.docs,1.4,1.5

[Paul Kelly]

Hello Markus

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Markus Neteler wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 01:08:02PM +0200, grass at intevation.de wrote:
>> Author: paul
>>
>> Update of /grassrepository/grass/mk
>> In directory doto:/tmp/cvs-serv5430
>>
>> Modified Files:
>> 	Makefile.docs
>> Log Message:
>> Re-direct to /dev/null so the manpages at least work on Solaris. Although
>> now there are no pre-formatted versions on IRIX so it looks like you
>> can't have everything.
>
> Hello Paul,
>
> does it make sense to distinguish by
> uname -m
> or so?

I don't know enough about it to say. I think the different Unix versions 
must have different versions of the man command derived from BSD, System V 
etc. with slightly different behaviours. But not having a pre-formatted 
version is not important---it only results in a fraction of a second delay 
in the man page loading. Having a pre-formatted version that was wrong 
(e.g. an empty file or just an error message) meant the man pages couldn't 
be displayed at all and was more serious. But I think that's fixed now.

Paul