Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:45:33 -0800 From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.Org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: compress manuals or not Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981111184533.00926710@localhost>
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I am working an autoconf build environment for OpenLDAP 1.1. I am trying to sort out how to properly detect if the system supports compress man pages, if so, which compress mechanism should be used. I also would like to disable installation of compressed man based upon system defaults. My goal is that the OpenLDAP 1.1 distribution install properly on FreeBSD whether the installer used my distribution tarball or the ports/packages. That is, I'd like to eliminate the need for port/package maintainer to have to patch our distribution. Has FreeBSD always supported compressed man pages? If not, which was the first release with this support. Has FreeBSD always supported GNU zip'ed man pages? If not, which was the first release with this support. Has FreeBSD always supported the $(NOMANCOMPRESS) variable to disabling compressed manuals? If not, which was the first release with this support. I could, after determining the platform was FreeBSD, have configure create a makefile with all:; echo x$(NOMANCOMPRESS) to see if this variable is set. If not, set the compress program to gzip -c and the suffix to .gz. Is there a better way to determine which compress command/suffix to use under FreeBSD? Is there a better way to determine which compress command/suffix to use generally? If anyone knows of a port (or other application) that has multiple platform man compression detection in their build environment, I'd appreciate a pointer. Thanks, Kurt PS: please cc me on followup as I am not currently subscribed to this list. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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