On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 10:45:40AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: >On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 12:20:25PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> That's the really annoying thing about this, though - the binaries in >> question have man pages that worked just fine with the previous imake >> setup. It seems that there has been a spec change of some sort here... > >Yes. David Dawes changed imake so that manpages could be preprocessed. >This is actually a good thing. Ultimately it will enable us to get rid >of the stupid "<XRoot>" relic that appears in so many X manpages. > >If the program in question was doing something subtle and/or clever, it >might be worthwhile to mail <xpert@xfree86.org> and ask for the best way >to handle it.
It was supplying a wrapper around InstallManPageLong() that was broken by design and didn't cope with the changed internals. In the end I've found and fixed it and sent a patch upstream. Thanks for your help, Branden. -- Steve McIntyre, Allstor Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] <a href=http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/>My home page</a> "Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, "Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I..."
