The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/36350; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: joerg.bsd@internode.net.au
Subject: Re: port-amd64/36350 (Many man pages missing on amd64)
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:44:59 +0200

 On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:10:03PM +0000, Joerg Niendorf wrote:
 >  The basic idea is to create a new category "x86" for those man pages that
 >  would be practically identical on amd64 and i386. Man pages common to
 >  these two machine types could then be added to man4.x86/ and man8.x86/
 >  directories and could be used to build man pages for both amd64 and i386
 >  by setting MANSUBDIR as follows:
 
 We have the same problem for sparc64, sparc and sun* - and untill now
 the standard procedure used to be to move man pages up, so they are
 available on all archs.
 
 The amount of affected man pages was smaller though ;-)
 
 Martin