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Date:      Sun, 26 Nov 2000 06:35:18 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 make.conf.5 src/share/man/man7 build.7 
Message-ID:  <45083.975213318@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 25 Nov 2000 09:39:46 PST." <200011251739.eAPHdke20159@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> 

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On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 09:39:46 PST, Steve Kargl wrote:

> This sounds reasonable, except the handbook isn't built and
> installed on your system after "make world" while man pages
> are.

In the case of build(7) and possibly make.conf(5), this is generally
useless, since documentation for the new features of the world build (or
the build process, for that matter) won't be installed yet.

> "man rc.conf" brings up a page that can be read.  "man handbook"
> does not work, "handbook handbook" doesn't work, "info handbook"
> does not work.

There's a reference to the handbook in the motd.  How much more helpful
can we possibly be! :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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