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From: brian@anorak.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: how to build GDB man pages with 2.1.5?
Date: 3 Dec 1996 11:15:34 -0000
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In article <mvhE1n51q.ItI@netcom.com>,
	mvh@netcom.com (Michael Harding) writes:
: I can't find the GDB man pages, just the first page.  I have done a
: makeinfo to regenerate the info pages, but the version string is
: missing, as well as a few sections.  Any quick pointers on how to
: regenerate them? Where did the man pages go?  I did do a make world at
: one point, this could have blown them away...

Try removing /usr/share/man/cat1/gdb.1.gz and doing another "man".  If
you ctrl-c a "man ...", you can end up with a half-written cat version.

Dunno about the info stuff - "cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb; make all install" ?

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Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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