[Bug 972] New: broken man page aliases

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Bug ID	972
Summary	broken man page aliases
Product	pcp
Version	unspecified
Hardware	All
OS	All
Status	NEW
Severity	major
Priority	P5
Component	pcp
Assignee	kenj@internode.on.net
Reporter	kenj@internode.on.net
CC	pcp@oss.sgi.com
Classification	Unclassified

Noticed on openSuSE that
  $ man pmerrstr
works, but
  $ man pmerrstr_r
does not ... presumably because the alias (via symlink) is not being
established.

On some other platforms this works, probably because the man(1) command is a
little smarter, or tries a bit harder.

The root cause is in the man page source

.SH NAME
\f3pmErrStr\f1, \f3pmErrStr_r\f1 \- convert a PMAPI error code into a string

Our builddefs define INSTALL_MAN to be a complicated rule which only works if
the man source above is rewritten as:

.SH NAME
\f3pmErrStr\f1,
\f3pmErrStr_r\f1 \- convert a PMAPI error code into a string

Suspect there are other cases of the same problem.

Fix is either (a) change man source, or (b) make the INSTALL_MAN rule smarter.

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