Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 19:30:15 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: chuckr@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/print/a2ps PAPERSIZE Message-ID: <199710221730.SAA01155@wall.jhs.no_domain> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Oct 1997 16:45:46 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971021163057.7146B-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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> From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 16:45:46 -0400 (EDT)
> Message-id: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971021163057.7146B-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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
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