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Bug 493

Summary: man pages on LInux not working with whatis database
Product: SDL Reporter: erik.heckers
Component: buildAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: minor    
Priority: P2    
Version: 1.2.12   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   

Description erik.heckers 2007-09-20 09:10:46 UTC 
Searching the installed man pages for SDL functions fails, e.g.
  man -k SDL_ |grep Video
After investigating this I found that "makewhatis", the tool that generates
the "whatis" database, reads the SDL_* man pages, but doesn't produce
entries in the "whatis" database for the SDL_* man pages.
After some more debugging I found the reason is a missing space.
After editing SDL_Init.3(.gz) and replacing 
   SDL_Init\- Initializes SDL
with
   SDL_Init \- Initializes SDL
everything works fine.
After running "makewhatis" I can successfully do a 
   man -k SDL_ 
and SDL_Init is listed in the output.
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2007-12-28 18:35:48 UTC 
This is fixed with revision 3472.  Thanks!