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| author | obrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-11-17 18:54:51 +0000 |
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| committer | obrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-11-17 18:54:51 +0000 |
| commit | 2d7746967a8891a381a80efd8f7361a67851c4c2 (patch) | |
| tree | bd06fbc8b5284ed2449ac9e8fdf078e11a82b736 | |
| parent | dd2cd30e2eeee6991b4b4909465ff4ea38631153 (diff) | |
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Explained the new MAN[1-9NL] varaiables.
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diff --git a/share/doc/handbook/porting.sgml b/share/doc/handbook/porting.sgml index 60abb56..52a37a5 100644 --- a/share/doc/handbook/porting.sgml +++ b/share/doc/handbook/porting.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $Id: porting.sgml,v 1.38 1996/11/11 06:50:44 asami Exp $ --> +<!-- $Id: porting.sgml,v 1.39 1996/11/17 00:25:26 obrien Exp $ --> <!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project --> <sect1><heading>Porting an existing piece of free software<label id="porting"></heading> @@ -907,23 +907,30 @@ FETCH_DEPENDS= ncftp2:${PORTSDIR}/net/ncftp2 <heading>Compress manpages, strip binaries</heading> <p>Do compress manpages and strip binaries. If the original - source already does that, fine; otherwise, you can add a - <tt>post-install</tt> rule to do it yourself. Make sure - that you check the variable <tt>NOMANCOMPRESS</tt> that the - user can set in <tt>/etc/make.conf</tt> to disable man page - compression. Here is an example: + source already strips the binary, fine; otherwise, you can add a + <tt>post-install</tt> rule to do it yourself. Here is an example: <tscreen><verb> post-install: strip ${PREFIX}/bin/xdl - .if !defined(NOMANCOMPRESS) - gzip -9nf ${PREFIX}/man/man1/xdl.1 - .endif </verb></tscreen> - <p>Use the <tt>file</tt> command on the installed executable to check whether the binary is stripped or not. If it does not say `not stripped', it is stripped. + <p>To automagically compress the manpages, use the MAN[1-9LN] + variables. They will check the variable <tt>NOMANCOMPRESS</tt> + that the user can set in <tt>/etc/make.conf</tt> to disable man + page compression. + Place them last in the section below the MAINTAINER variable. + Here is an example: +<tscreen><verb> +MAN1= foo.1 bar.1 +MAN5= foo.conf.5 +MAN8= baz.8 +</verb></tscreen> + <p>Note that this is not usually nessicary with ports that are X + applications and use Imake to build. + <sect3> <heading>INSTALL_* macros</heading> <p>Do use the macros provided in <tt>bsd.port.mk</tt> to |
