Bug 189743 - many Xlib and Xt man pages are broken (partial move from 3x to 3)
Summary: many Xlib and Xt man pages are broken (partial move from 3x to 3)
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: libX11
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-04-24 08:45 UTC by Hubert Verstraete
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-05-19 11:03:28 UTC
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symlinks for libX11-devel (36.21 KB, text/plain)
2006-04-28 10:55 UTC, Felix Bellaby
no flags Details

Description Hubert Verstraete 2006-04-24 08:45:56 UTC
Description of problem:
Many man pages which are actually a reference to another main page, point to the
old location of the main page.
Example, the content of /usr/share/man/man3/XCreateSimpleWindow.3x.gz is:
.so man3x/XCreateWindow.3x

But both XCreateWindow.3x.gz and XCreateSimpleWindow.3x.gz are in man3 not man3x
(even if their extension is 3x.gz and not 3.gz)
I saw the same issue with the Xt library. There may be some other library man
pages with the same issue.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libX11-devel-1.0.0-3

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man XCreateSimpleWindow
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
fopen: No such file or directory
Cannot open man page /usr/share/man/man3x/XCreateWindow.3x.gz
No manual entry for XCreateSimpleWindow

Expected results:
To see the man page for XCreateWindow and XCreateSimpleWindow

Comment 1 Felix Bellaby 2006-04-28 10:55:16 UTC
Created attachment 128355 [details]
symlinks for libX11-devel

Comment 2 James Hunt 2006-05-05 10:14:07 UTC
Same problem seen here. Simplest fix is:

ln -s /usr/share/man/man3 /usr/share/man/man3x


Comment 3 Mike A. Harris 2006-05-19 11:03:28 UTC
Thanks for the report.  This problem was present in the upstream X.Org
sources, and is resolved in the X.Org 7.1 related CVS branches now.  It
affects many library components.

We've got the release candidates of 7.1 in rawhide now which should
resolve all of these issues.  If any new problems are discovered while
using rawhide, please report them to X.Org directly to ensure they
get resolved in time for the 7.1 release, which is nearing completion.

Setting status to resolved in "RAWHIDE".



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