Hi, I'm thinking of adding some features to the build system that would need having a clean man/ directory. The main one is building several books for other projects, one per language, where languages correspond to every directory within man/ that doesn't match man*. Currently, I'm workarounding this by running the build system several times, for each language dir, but it could be much simpler, I think. For not having a regression in the number of characters one needs to type to edit the manual pages, I thought of adding symlinks in the root of the repository, so it would look like this: $ ls -l man* lrwxrwxrwx 1 alx alx 9 Mar 26 02:26 man1 -> man/man1/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 alx alx 9 Mar 26 02:26 man2 -> man/man2/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 alx alx 13 Mar 26 02:25 man2type -> man/man2type/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 alx alx 9 Mar 26 02:26 man3 -> man/man3/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 alx alx 14 Mar 26 02:26 man3const -> man/man3const/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 alx alx 13 Mar 26 02:26 man3head -> man/man3head/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 alx alx 13 Mar 26 02:26 man3type -> man/man3type/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 alx alx 9 Mar 26 02:26 man4 -> man/man4/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 alx alx 9 Mar 26 02:26 man5 -> man/man5/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 alx alx 9 Mar 26 02:26 man6 -> man/man6/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 alx alx 9 Mar 26 02:26 man7 -> man/man7/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 alx alx 9 Mar 26 02:26 man8 -> man/man8/ man: total 120 drwxrwxr-x 2 alx alx 4096 Mar 26 02:24 man1 drwxrwxr-x 2 alx alx 20480 Mar 26 02:24 man2 drwxrwxr-x 2 alx alx 4096 Mar 26 02:24 man2type drwxrwxr-x 2 alx alx 57344 Mar 26 02:24 man3 drwxrwxr-x 2 alx alx 4096 Mar 26 02:24 man3const drwxrwxr-x 2 alx alx 4096 Mar 26 02:24 man3head drwxrwxr-x 2 alx alx 4096 Mar 26 02:24 man3type drwxrwxr-x 2 alx alx 4096 Mar 26 02:24 man4 drwxrwxr-x 2 alx alx 4096 Mar 26 02:24 man5 drwxrwxr-x 2 alx alx 4096 Mar 26 02:24 man6 drwxrwxr-x 2 alx alx 4096 Mar 26 02:24 man7 drwxrwxr-x 2 alx alx 4096 Mar 26 02:24 man8 What do you think about it? Cheers, Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> Looking for a remote C programming job at the moment.
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