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authorobrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>1997-01-01 22:39:12 +0000
committerobrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>1997-01-01 22:39:12 +0000
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Documented MANPREFIX and MAN%cPREFIX (where %c=[1-9LN]).
[my wording is probably awkward, if a wordsmith is bored perhaps they could take a look at this]
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-<!-- $Id: porting.sgml,v 1.51 1996/12/28 08:23:52 max Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: porting.sgml,v 1.52 1996/12/30 21:33:38 jfieber Exp $ -->
<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
<sect1><heading>Porting an existing piece of free software<label id="porting"></heading>
@@ -955,6 +955,12 @@ MAN8= baz.8
<p>Note that this is not usually necessary with ports that are X
applications and use Imake to build.
+ <p>If your port anchors its man tree somewhere other than
+ <tt>PREFIX</tt>, you can use the <tt>MANPREFIX</tt> to set it.
+ Also, if only some of the manpages go in a non-standard place,
+ such as many Perl modules ports, you can set individual man
+ paths using <tt>MAN%cPREFIX</tt> (where %c=[1-9LN]).
+
<sect3>
<heading>INSTALL_* macros</heading>
<p>Do use the macros provided in <tt>bsd.port.mk</tt> to
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