Preview man-page without installing package.

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Published on 2010-04-17T15:07:58Z Indexed on 2010/04/17 15:13 UTC
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Hi

I've checked out some typical open source project which is using auto-tools. I want to hack a bit on this package, but I would also like to change something in the man-page of the package.

The man-page source is found project-name/doc/project-name.1. I just made a small change, and now I want to preview that change, without having to actually do a make install of the project. How do I do that?

I tried stuff like:

man -M . 1 project-name

But it does not work, neither does the various variations I have tried. This sounds like a simple problem, but I can't seem to find anything by googling on the problem, so I'm hoping someone here can help me out. Thanks.

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