From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jan 9 11:19:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A29F37B404 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:19:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14G3v1-000MFx-00; Tue, 09 Jan 2001 18:54:51 +0000 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f09Iso142976; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 18:54:50 GMT (envelope-from ben) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 18:54:50 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: change to manpage for 'nm' Message-ID: <20010109185450.G79365@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20010109183924.A11008@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010109183924.A11008@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org j mckitrick wrote: > Just an idea for a doc change: > > The nm man page should list ldd as a 'see also'. It lists a few other > commands, but I think ldd belongs there as well. 'ldd' refers to 'nm', but > not the other way around. Unfortunately nm.1 is in src/contrib/, and still on the vendor branch, and we generally don't take things off the vendor branch except for an important change. I don't think this change is important enough, sorry. A better way to get this change incorporated would be to submit it to the binutils people to get it included in the next release, which will presumably be imported into FreeBSD at some point. (There actually seem to be three nm.1 manual pages in the repository: /usr/cvs/src/contrib/binutils/binutils/nm.1,v /usr/cvs/src/usr.bin/nm/nm.1,v /usr/cvs/src/usr.bin/nm/nm.1aout,v I'm not sure what the second one there is, it doesn't seem to be used at all. The first one appears to be what you get when you do "man nm".) -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message