Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:48:39 -0700 From: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: avoiding build dependency on docbook, etc. in new port Message-ID: <20090617234839.GB96132@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4A395100.7060509@FreeBSD.org> References: <20090617181248.GA96132@comcast.net> <4A395100.7060509@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed 17 Jun 2009 at 13:24:32 PDT Greg Larkin wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Charlie Kester wrote: >> I'm porting some software that has a build dependency on docbook2man in >> order to generate its manpages from .docbook files. >> >> Testing the port in tinderbox takes a long time, most of it because of >> the need to build the docbook infrastructure. It seems a shame to use >> all that CPU time and install all those packages just to get ready to >> convert some manpages. >> What's the preferred approach in cases like this? Should I keep the >> build dependency on docbook2man et al, or should I put pregenerated >> copies of the manpages in the files directory of the port? > >Hi Charlie, > >I feel your pain! I don't think there's any problem pre-generating the >man page and keeping it in the port's files/ directory. Actually, this is a suite of tools and there are eleven manpages. > >On the other hand, I recently went through this experience and went a >different route. YMMV! > >I took over maintainership for security/logcheck a while back, and it >used docbook2man to create its one (!) man page. After a while, I got >some requests to strip out that dependency. A user was kind enough to >point me to docbook2X: http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net/ > >This is a much lighter-weight tool for converting docbook to manual >pages, among other functions. I eventually added it to the ports tree >and updated the logcheck port to use it. Now I'm confused. When I used pkg_info to find out what package had installed docbook2man on my system, it said it was part of docbook2X-0.8.8_2. It was after I added textproc/docbook2X as a build dependency that I started seeing a bunch of docbook stuff getting installed in my tinderbox.
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