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In-reply-to: <3.0.32.19970113115703.00a1b8e0@dimaga.com> (message from Eivind Eklund on Mon, 13 Jan 1997 11:57:04 +0100)
Subject: Re: AfterStep in -current
From: asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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 * Just submitting for somebody else to verify: AfterStep seems to try to
 * compress it's man-pages twice.  It might be just my system though - I'm
 * running 2.1.6 with bsd.ports.mk, bsd.ports.subdir.mk and
 * /usr/bin/src/usr.bin/make/var.c from current. (As per Asamis comment about
 * ports infrastructure earlier today)

Really?  The only cause I can think for this is that your bsd.port.mk
is a little old, namely older than 1.236 (Dec 11) and a new afterstep
port.  (Actually David jumped the gun and the change to afterstep went 
in on Dec 10. :)

What does "grep Id bsd.port.mk" say?

Satoshi