From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 26 18:43:52 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D049316A4CE; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:43:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx-out-04.forthnet.gr (mx-out.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F41743D53; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:43:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dds@aueb.gr) Received: from mx-av-03.forthnet.gr (mx-av.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.27]) j3QIhmTi030123; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:43:48 +0300 Received: from mx-as-02.forthnet.gr (mx-as.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.226]) j3QIhmg2022724; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:43:48 +0300 Received: from forthnet.gr (athmta05.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.26]) j3QIhmjv008112; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:43:48 +0300 Received: from [192.168.136.16] (dds.ath.forthnet.gr [213.16.179.162]) by forthnet.gr (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j3QIhkmH015225; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:43:47 +0300 Message-ID: <426E8BE6.7090800@aueb.gr> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:43:50 +0400 From: Diomidis Spinellis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, el, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Emanuel Strobl References: <200504262010.49509@harrymail> In-Reply-To: <200504262010.49509@harrymail> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: groff alternative? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:43:52 -0000 Emanuel Strobl wrote: > I'm using NO_CXX in my make.conf to strip down the base system to ~50MB > including man pages. The only problem is that groff is missing if I don't > build c++, and even if I build groff itself and the needed libstdc++ it costs > me about 10MB. If I just skip NO_CXX it's only 500k more, so I moved my > patches to /dev/null. > Does anybody know any alternative for the groff part to view man pages simply > with the man command? It's horrible that the filter needs more space than all > the manpages itself! Have you considered preformatting the manual pages on the development system, and copying over the pages into /usr/share/man/cat* of the shrinked-down system? > And of course, even if I decide to leave system man pages outside the flash > card I still may want to read man pages of installed packages (which is > another mountpoint on my installation, so there may be no space limit, > depending on the card and additional drives) Again, it appears your shrinked-down system has access to a more powerful machine. You could modify man to run groff on the remote machine. -- Diomidis - dds@ - http://www.spinellis.gr