Re: [pcp] PCP Updates: Multi-archive: update man pages and books

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

----- Original Message -----
> On 2016-03-11 18:29, Dave Brolley wrote:
> > On 03/11/2016 05:09 AM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> >> On 2016-03-11 00:58, Dave Brolley wrote:
> >>> These are updates to our man pages and books with respect to
> >>> multi-archive contexts. I did this mainly by grepping for the word
> >>> 'archive' within the docs. Let me know if you spot any errors or
> >>> omissions.
> >> How about pmrep(1) man page?
> >>
> > I missed pmrep(1) and pmrep.conf(5) because the sources are in the
> > src/pmrep directory. Is there any reason that they are not in man/man1
> > and man/man5 respectively, as are all the other man pages?
> 
> Nathan probably remembers the exact reason but pmrep is not the only case:
> 

We used to have everything all below man, but the conditional makefile
logic (esp in the man/man1 makefile) was becoming very error prone.

So we moved man pages for conditionally-built components into the src
SUBDIRS so that the conditional enable/disable build logic was in one
place for each tool.

cheers.

--
Nathan