Subject: Re: CVS commit: sharesrc/share/mk
To: None <mrg@netbsd.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 01/06/2002 11:57:57
matthew green <mrg@netbsd.org> writes:
> Modified Files:
> sharesrc/share/mk: bsd.man.mk
>
> Log Message:
> generate man pages into a temporary file and rename it if groff succeeds.
> this avoids a problem where groff was dumping core and leaving empty
> manpage.catN files, that would later not be rebuilt.
And does anything clean up the temp files if the mv doesn't succeed?
Perry
PS Given that groff shouldn't be dumping core in the first place...
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