> Enclosed is a patch to mandocdb(8) that lists index filenames relative
> to their database directory instead of absolute.
>
> In other words,
>
> /usr/local/man/man1/foo.1 -> man1/foo.1
>
> This frees up a lot of space in the databases and also allows whole
> subtrees to move around with `cp -R'.
>
> While here, I made chdir() error out since it's now required to traverse
> the paths. I also touched up this and that, and removed some missed
> "verb > 2" statements.
>
> apropos(1) and whatis(1) work fine with this patch (except my
> "interactive mode" posted to discuss@, eagerly awaiting your comments),
> but catman(8) and man.cgi(7) will need adjustment.

Following up.  This patch finishes the job for the other utilities.