* Russ Allbery wrote on Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 05:08:14AM CET: > Do you really want to generate separate copies of the man page for each > function documented by the same source POD file? It's more normal to > generate one copy of the man page and then, during make install, symlink > the other ones to the one man page that you generate.
Man pages have a portable linking mechanism that doesn't require symlinks to work: let bar.1 consist of the line .so man1/foo.1 to link it to the foo manpage. Cheers, Ralf