Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 01:15:46 +0100 (CET) From: oliver.fromme@heim3.tu-clausthal.de To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/10517: Missing manpage for /usr/bin/gensetdefs (fix included!) Message-ID: <199903100015.BAA48135@hermes.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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>Number: 10517 >Category: docs >Synopsis: Missing manpage for /usr/bin/gensetdefs (fix included!) >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Mar 9 16:20:00 PST 1999 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Oliver Fromme >Release: FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE i386 >Organization: Clausthal University of Technology >Environment: 3.1-stable, 4.0-current >Description: There is no manpage for /usr/bin/gensetdefs. It would be nice to have a manpage for every tool in /usr/bin, even for those that are unimportant for the "normal" user, so you can at least find out what it's good for without having to dig in some sources... >How-To-Repeat: man gensetdefs >Fix: The following manpage gensetdefs(8) is based on source code comments by John D. Polstra. .Dd March 10, 1999 .Dt GENSETDEFS 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm gensetdefs .Nd generate linker set definitions .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm gensetdefs .Ar file ... .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm command is a special-purpose program to generate the linker set definitions needed when building an ELF kernel. Its .Ar file arguments are the names of ELF object files. It scans the section names of the object files, building a table of those that begin with .Dv .set. , which represent linker sets. Finally, for each set .Dv foo with .Dv count elements, it writes a line .Fn DEFINE_SET foo count ; to the standard output. .Pp This command ist used by the kernel .Pa makefile . .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /sys/i386/conf/Makefile.i386 -compact .It Pa /sys/i386/conf/Makefile.i386 generic makefile for the .Tn i386 .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr config 8 .Sh AUTHORS The .Nm command was written by .An John D. Polstra . >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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