Re: fill gaps in arch.in and lib.in

[Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>]

On 10/16/11 18:42, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Kristaps,
>
> Kristaps Dzonsons wrote on Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 06:14:52PM +0200:
>
>> As for the manual page, perhaps we can narrow it down to the "big
>> ones" and simply mention that most others modern platforms are
>> supported?  The big ones being i386, amd64, sparc,
>> sparc64---whatever.  I agree that a Big List is a bad idea, as well
>> as listing nothing.  This would strike a nice balance.
>
> Maybe even simpler:
>
> In the individual operating systems, let's keep everything as it is.
>
> In the generic bsd.lv version, let's just put something like:
>
>    The list of supported architectures varies by operating system.
>    For the full list of all architectures recognized by mandoc(1),
>    see the file arch.in in the source distribution.
>
>    Note that mandoc(1) can format manuals for all architectures
>    and operating systems on any platform.

Ingo,

I think this is fine, considering the options.  Of course a remaining 
option is to make a mandoc_arch(7) manual, but then we'd need 
mandoc_lib(7) too... but that's just messy.

I think a similar note should be put into the `Lb' documentation in 
referring to libraries in lib.in, too, as it's not a fixed set.

Thoughts?

Kristaps
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