From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 23 09:10:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA06731 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 09:10:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from wall.jhs.no_domain (vector.muc.ditec.de [194.120.126.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA06721; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 09:10:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhs@wall.jhs.no_domain) Received: from wall.jhs.no_domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wall.jhs.no_domain (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA01155; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 18:30:16 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199710221730.SAA01155@wall.jhs.no_domain> To: Chuck Robey cc: chuckr@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/print/a2ps PAPERSIZE From: "Julian H. Stacey" Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey" X-Email: Home: Customer: X-Address: Holz Strasse 27d, 80469 Munich, Germany X-Web: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ (including PGP key) X-Address: Holz Strasse 27d, 80469 Munich, Germany X-Tel: Home: +49.89.268616 Work: +49.89.607.29788 X-Fax: Home: +49.89.2608126 Work: +49.89.607.32158 X-Data: Home: +49.89.26023276 X-Company: Vector Systems Ltd, Unix & Internet Consultants X-Mailer: EXMH 1.6.9 on FreeBSD (Unix) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Oct 1997 16:45:46 EDT." Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 19:30:15 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Reference: > From: Chuck Robey > Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 16:45:46 -0400 (EDT) > Message-id: Hi Chuck ( Robey) You wrote: > On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Hi chuckr@FreeBSD.org (maintainer of a2ps) > > cc ports@ > > I note: > > current/ports/print/a2ps: $(PAPERSIZE) > > current/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/devps/Makefile: ${PAGE} > > Could we perhaps use just one env. var for both ? > > Right now in my /etc/csh.cshrc for instance I have dup. info: > > I used PAPERSIZE because that's what a2ps used to use, and because it's > what gs still uses. If I were going to change it, I think a more > canonically correct term would me "media", wouldn't you? Well PAPER is not always appropriate, but PAGE seems appropriate in all cases, so maybe PAGE_SIZE ? ( MEDIA seems a bit non-obvious). But to allow for present & future ports that may use all obvious names internally, & to allow for future ports/*/*/patches/patch-??, that will contain swap scripts from all the variant names to one common FreeBSD page size name, perhaps we might be better off with a unique name, such as FreeBSD_PAGE or so ? The main thing is to get all src & ports to use one common variable, what that is, isn't so important. Easiest might be to let the one who does all the commit work choose the name ? Do you have commit privs to normalise ports/print/a2ps japanese/ghostscript print/ghostscript[ 34] current/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/devps/Makefile etc ? > > ------ > > setenv PAGE A4 > > # PAGE is set for: > > # src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/devps/Makefile > > # which creates > > # /usr/obj/net/desk/usr2/src/current/gnu/usr.bin/groff/devps/DESC > > # which contains > > # res 792000 or 841890 > > # which produces: > > # /usr/share/groff_font/devps/DESC > > # PAGE is also set for: > > # src/contrib/groff/devps/Makefile.sub > > setenv PAPERSIZE A4 # for ports/print/a2ps > > ------------- Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/