boot man pages installed four times..

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Oct 28 02:21:57 UTC 2014


On Oct 27, 2014, at 6:14 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:

> So, our loader man pages are currently installed four different times
> during installworld...  Once each durning sys/boot/userboot/userboot,
> sys/boot/amd64/efi, sys/boot/i386/loader and sys/boot/i386/zfsloader
> 
> This is because sys/boot/common/Makefile.inc defines the man pages, and
> each of these locations include that Makefile...
> 
> It seems like the logical thing to do is to create a sys/boot/man that
> only installed man pages...  This will partly move us to always
> installing all man pages on all archs...
> 
> Comments?

We should have a common set installed from a  new directory, and if there’s
a need for variations we should install them from the current locations (and
make sure there’s a cross ref from the common ones).

Warner

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