Minor Erlang & zlib path conflict.

[irgeek]

It looks like the erlang and zlib formulae are both trying to install a manpage to the same path:

$ brew link --overwrite --dry-run erlang
Would remove:
/usr/local/share/man/man3/zlib.3

$ ls -l /usr/local/share/man/man3/zlib.3
lrwxr-xr-x  1 username  admin  48  7 Mar 09:27 /usr/local/share/man/man3/zlib.3 -> ../../../Cellar/zlib/1.2.7/share/man/man3/zlib.3

[jacknagel]

Yuck, erlang shouldn't be shipping zlib man pages...

[irgeek]

They're different man pages. The one installed by zlib is for the library itself and the one installed by erlang is for the erlang zlib API.

[jacknagel]

Surely they were aware "zlib.3" is taken.

[irgeek]

Considering erlang installs hundreds of man pages (632 according to brew list erlang) they should probably be going into a separate section. Perl installs man pages in 3pm, openssl installs them in 3ssl, pcap in 3pcap, etc.

[jacknagel]

I agree, at the very least they should provide a configure option to set the man page extension.

[adamv]

We've reverted to Erlang 15 for the time being, so shrugging this off until we move forward again.