Erik Heckers fixed bug #493 Searching the installed man pages for SDL functions fails, e.g. man -k SDL_ |grep Video After investigating this I found that "makewhatis", the tool that generates the "whatis" database, reads the SDL_* man pages, but doesn't produce entries in the "whatis" database for the SDL_* man pages. After some more debugging I found the reason is a missing space. After editing SDL_Init.3(.gz) and replacing SDL_Init\- Initializes SDL with SDL_Init \- Initializes SDL everything works fine. After running "makewhatis" I can successfully do a man -k SDL_ and SDL_Init is listed in the output.

.TH "SDL_JoystickNumBalls" "3" "Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:00" "SDL" "SDL API Reference" 
.SH "NAME"
SDL_JoystickNumBalls \- Get the number of joystick trackballs
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.PP
\fB#include "SDL\&.h"
.sp
\fBint \fBSDL_JoystickNumBalls\fP\fR(\fBSDL_Joystick *joystick\fR);
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
Return the number of trackballs available from a previously opened \fBSDL_Joystick\fR\&.
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
.PP
Number of trackballs\&.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
\fI\fBSDL_JoystickGetBall\fP\fR, \fI\fBSDL_JoystickOpen\fP\fR
...\" created by instant / docbook-to-man, Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:00