due to the many external programs that come to plan9 nowadays i've added a 'man' target for installing external man pages located in the same directory as the source. the command is common to the 'mkone' and 'mkmany' include files and works simply by:

- the source code writer creates one or several man pages named '$TARG.man'
- the source code writer defines MAN= in the mkfiles for their code, $MAN points to the section the man pages are destined for (i.e. /sys/man/1/ for section 1, commands)
- the user types 'mk man' or 'mk somefile.man' to have the man page installed.

for now, the 'man' target is not included in 'mk all'...

Reference: /n/sources/patch/applied/mkfiles-man
Date: Tue Mar 15 01:47:01 CET 2005

--- /sys/src/cmd/mkmany	Tue Mar 15 01:43:00 2005
+++ /sys/src/cmd/mkmany	Tue Mar 15 01:42:58 2005
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 PROGS=${TARG:%=$O.%}
+MANFILES=${TARG:%=%.man}
 LDFLAGS=
 YFLAGS=-d
 
@@ -69,3 +70,8 @@
 
 %.acid: %.$O $HFILES
 	$CC $CFLAGS -a $stem.c >$target
+
+%.man:	$MAN/$stem
+	cp $stem.man $MAN/$stem
+
+man:V:	$MANFILES
--- /sys/src/cmd/mkone	Tue Mar 15 01:43:07 2005
+++ /sys/src/cmd/mkone	Tue Mar 15 01:43:05 2005
@@ -52,3 +52,9 @@
 
 %.acid: %.$O $HFILES
 	$CC $CFLAGS -a $stem.c >$target
+
+%.man:	$MAN/$stem
+	cp $stem.man $MAN/$stem
+
+man:V:	$TARG.man
+