Re: tabs.1 is installed as a dangling symlink

[Sven Joachim]

On 2019-07-15 12:48 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:

> Not sure when this broke, but in the current patchlevel (20190713),
> "make install" installs tabs.1 as a symlink to itself:
>
> ,----
> | $ ./configure --prefix=/tmp/ncurses && make install
> | [...]
> | $ LC_ALL=C ls -l /tmp/ncurses/share/man/man1/tabs*
> | lrwxrwxrwx 1 sven sven 6 Jul 15 12:36 /tmp/ncurses/share/man/man1/tabs.1 -> 
> tabs.1
> `----
>
> In the "make install" output I see the following messages:
>
> ,----
> | installing /tmp/ncurses/share/man/man1/tabs.1 tabs.1.gz
> | .. installing alias tabs.1
> `----
>
> I don't know what the intention was, but installing tabs.1 as an alias
> (= symlink) to itself cannot be right.

Reverting the last change to man/man_db.renames from the 20190623
patchlevel fixed that.

diff --git a/man/man_db.renames b/man/man_db.renames
index ce768f92..d7f323bb 100644
--- a/man/man_db.renames
+++ b/man/man_db.renames
@@ -171,7 +171,6 @@ user_caps.5                 user_caps.5
 wresize.3x                     wresize.3ncurses
 #
 # Other:
-tabs.1m                                tabs.1
 tack.1m                                tack.1
 #
 getty.1                                getty.8

Cheers,
       Sven