[oi-dev] perl and Symbol.3 manpage

stes@PANDORA.BE stes at telenet.be
Sat Feb 11 17:03:36 UTC 2023


Maybe I should add that on Illumos the files are:

https://illumos.org/man/3/all

and 

https://illumos.org/man/3PERL/all

----- Op 11 feb 2023 om 18:01 schreef stes at PANDORA.BE stes at telenet.be:

> I believe that the runtime/perl-534 and package runtime/perl-536 package a file
> 
> /usr/share/man/man3/Symbol.3
> 
> This can be verified with : pkg contents runtime/perl-534 | grep Symbol
> 
> Should this file be in man3 ?
> 
> There also exists a /usr/share/man/man3perl
> 
> But that directory seems to be empty for me.
> 
> I'm not sure what the OpenIndiana conventions are for putting files in man3/
> 
> Perhaps on older versions of OpenIndiana the file was only in
> usr/perl5/5.xx/man/man3/Symbol.3
> 
> where 5.xx is the release like 5.34 and 5.36  without linking or copying into
> /usr/share/man/man3 itself.
> 
> 
> I'm asking because a different software is also trying to put a file Symbol.3 in
> /usr/share/man/man3,
> and I've noticed that since  a while it complains about the Perl file in man3.
> 
> Regards,
> David Stes



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