* 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


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