RHEL makewhatis no longer follows symlinks
Issue
- The makewhatis script, which creates the whatis database of manual pages, ignores symbolic links between pages.
- This is a regression from the behaviour in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 4)
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
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