On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 08:56:24AM +0300, Oron Peled wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 בSeptember 2008, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> > Oron Peled wrote:
> > >
> > > You was probably missled by the man page packaged by Debian (upstream
> > > autotools have only info pages).
> > >
> > > As I said, run:
> > >   info libtool dlopen building
> > > And it will bring you right to the page.
> > >
> > >   
> > I did. It gave me the man page inside the "info" browser (which I can't 
> > stand).
> 
> I know. Debian has a good policy of having man page for every
> program. However, they screw up (IMO) by not providing the info page
> supplied by the upstream.

Not officially, anyway:

http://packages.debian.org/autoconf-doc

The copyright file from those will tell you that the license used is the
GFDL.
  
> 
> The result of their policy is omission of important documentation
> (for complex programs, the man page is a poor substitute).

Yeah, kind of a shame that the Free Software Foundation does not provide
free documentation. This is mainly because of the invariant sections 
(e.g. the cover page).

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