where to put documentation of programs that accompany libc?

Roland McGrath roland@redhat.com
Tue Jan 13 01:54:00 GMT 2004


Having all these programs documented nicely in a GNU manual would be a
lovely contribution.

>   - Start a new chapter in the libc manual?
>   - Start a new manual for the programs that accompany libc?

Either of these is fine.  It's easy enough to write the new Texinfo files
such that they can go either way as seems appropriate later on, without a
lot of work to make the switch.  Put each group of related programs
together in a distinct Texinfo file that can be a chapter/section
(e.g. localedef and locale, vs ldconfig, vs debugging helpers like
catchsegv or mtrace).

>   - Start a 'man' directory containing manual pages?
>   - Write a manual page and submit it to the Linux man page maintainer,
>     Andries Brouwer?

We do not deal in man pages.


Thanks,
Roland



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