Re: man/man8/ldconfig.8: document system-wide tunables

DJ Delorie <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:34:15 -0400
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-man
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> writes:
> That link remains a good précis of the problem.  One could show up my
> man(7) composition abilities and earn my gratitude by solving that
> constraint problem using only macros from the package.  :)

We already process all the raw files to fill in the date and version.
Add the .in macros around .EX there?

There are 1528 .EX's in the tree, but a short perl script should be able
to fix them all up.  Note: there are 336 .EX's that do not have the .in,
and two .EX's that do not have a closing .EE.

Turns out Gemini is good at perl.

Anyway, doing this as a postprocessor would let us purge the hacks and
make .EX/.EE properly semantic again, while retaining our desired
appearance.  It's also one more bit of folklore new authors won't need
to learn ;-)