strftime man page is garbled

[Jon TURNEY]

On 04/06/2015 15:50, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/04/2015 08:34 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, the manpages in cygwin-doc are automatically generated
>> from the newlib .info pages by a perl script (See newlibinfo2man.pl in [1])
>>
>> I'm not sure if these man pages are much use now that we have
>> man-pages-posix
>
> GNU/Linux systems have two sections: 'man 3' for system writeup, and
> 'man 3p' for POSIX pages. This is useful, because in many instances, the
> system writeup has more details about Linux-specific extensions, while
> the 3p page is more useful for limiting usage to just portable aspects.
>   Having both sets shouldn't hurt, if we have a way to easily open from
> either set.

Ok.

I don't think the approach of trying to convert the .info is ever going 
to lead to particularly good results, though.  Perhaps this would be 
better implemented as part of newlib, operating on the .texinfo output 
of, or as part of makedoc.


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