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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>2022-07-22 16:58:06 +0200
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>2022-07-22 16:58:12 +0200
commit18e6ae0eadd291bca0ae55f97b474ea86c0f5d9b (patch)
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man-pages.7: Document LIBRARY section
Reported-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
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@@ -208,6 +208,15 @@ following the "\e\-") should be in lowercase,
except where English or technical terminological convention
dictates otherwise.
.TP
+.B LIBRARY
+The library providing a symbol.
+.IP
+It shows the common name of the library,
+and in parentheses,
+the name of the library file
+and the linker flag needed to link a program against it:
+.RI ( libfoo ", " -lfoo ).
+.TP
.B SYNOPSIS
A brief summary of the command or function's interface.
.IP