Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:14:56 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r43084 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook Message-ID: <201310311514.r9VFEuwJ039373@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Thu Oct 31 15:14:56 2013 New Revision: 43084 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43084 Log: - Rewrite the section on manual pages in the light of stage directories, missed previously. Submitted by: bapt Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.xml Thu Oct 31 14:43:20 2013 (r43083) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.xml Thu Oct 31 15:14:56 2013 (r43084) @@ -4149,15 +4149,13 @@ MASTERDIR= ${.CURDIR}/../xdvi300 <title>Man Pages</title> <para>If your port anchors its man tree somewhere other than - <makevar>PREFIX</makevar>, you can use the - <makevar>MANPREFIX</makevar> to set it. Also, if only - manpages in certain sections go in a non-standard place, such - as some <literal>perl</literal> modules ports, you can set - individual man paths using - <makevar>MAN<replaceable>sect</replaceable>PREFIX</makevar> - (where <replaceable>sect</replaceable> is one of - <literal>1-9</literal>, <literal>L</literal> or - <literal>N</literal>).</para> + <makevar>PREFIX</makevar>, you can use + <makevar>MANDIRS</makevar> to specify those directories. Note + that the files corresponding to manual pages should be placed in + <filename>pkg-plist</filename> along with the rest of the files. + The purpose of <makevar>MANDIRS</makevar> is to enable automatic + compression of manual pages, therefore the file names should be + suffixed with <filename>.gz</filename>.</para> </sect1> <sect1 id="makefile-info">
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