Hi - > aha, ok, I understand now. This makes testing in-tree a bit more > difficult. So the .so ./debuginfod-client-config.7 does work if you got > into the doc/ subdirectory, then man ./debuginfod-find.1 does show the > included chunks. But for the installed tree it should be .so man7 > debuginfod-client-config.7 ?
It'd probably be ".so ../man7/debuginfod-client-config.7" or something. > > If we look at man1/builtins.1 and man1/bash.1, they show a bit of this > > pattern. And actually bash.1 has some conditional inclusion tricks to > > let the bash.1 page be includable as well as standalone. That same > > trick could be done within the new debuginfod-client-config.7 file. > > See the refs to ".ig zZ" and ".zZ", ".nr zZ 1" in the file that > > contains the .so directive. > > That is interesting, then we could make debuginfod-client-config.7 into > a real man page and include only the actual contents. I am not > completely sure I understand how this works though. I hope there is > some man/troff documentation that explains this trick? Documentation? Nah, let's reverse-engineer: NROFF CPP builtins.1: .nr zZ 1 #define zZ 1 .so bash.1 #include <bash.1> bash.1: .if \n(zZ=1 .ig zZ #ifndef zZ [...] [...] .zZ #else [...] [...] - FChE
