Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 22:46:32 +1000 From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Files installed to /etc, (was: review request) Message-ID: <199605031246.WAA11568@nemeton.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199605011026.DAA15481@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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On Wed, 1 May 1996 03:26:16 -0700 (PDT) "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote:
> > It would make things a bit harder to find. E.g., the i386 man pages are
> > currently linked to /usr/share/man/man* since man(1) is too stupid to find
> > them in machine-dependent places.
>
> This was broken the day we moved from the true BSD man(1) to the gnu version,
> something we should look at reversing if we can find a suck^H^H^H^Hvolunteer
> to add manual page compression to the CSRG version of man(1).
The NetBSD man command has support for both compression and multiple
architectures. I just compiled the NetBSD-current version on FreeBSD
FreeBSD-current (closest match ?!) and it worked, more or less.
The following man.conf file is enough to make it work on
FreeBSD-current if there are no files in the cat directories. (NetBSD
uses a .0 extension in cat directories.)
The NetBSD code doesn't install the uncompressed page, either.
Thoughts, anyone?
Giles
--
# Sheer, raging paranoia...
_version BSD.2
# The whatis/apropos database.
_whatdb /usr/share/man/whatis.db
# Subdirectories for paths ending in '/', IN SEARCH ORDER.
_subdir {cat,man}{1,8,6,2,3,4,5,7,3f,9}
# Files typed by suffix and their commands.
# Note the order, .Z must come after .[1-9].Z, or it will match first.
_suffix .0
_build .[1-9] /usr/bin/nroff -man %s
_build .[1-9].Z /usr/bin/zcat %s | /usr/bin/nroff -man
_build .[1-9].gz /usr/bin/gunzip -c %s | /usr/bin/nroff -man
_build .Z /usr/bin/zcat %s
_build .0.Z /usr/bin/zcat %s
_build .gz /usr/contrib/bin/gunzip %s
_build .z /usr/contrib/bin/gunzip %s
_build .nr /usr/bin/nroff -man %s
# Sections and their directories.
# All paths ending in '/' are the equivalent of entries specifying that
# directory with all of the subdirectories listed for the keyword _subdir.
# default
_default /usr/{share,X11,contrib,local}/{man,man/old}/
# Other sections that represent complete man subdirectories.
X11 /usr/X11R4/man/
X11R4 /usr/X11R4/man/
contrib /usr/contrib/man/
local /usr/local/man/
new /usr/contrib/man/
old /usr/share/man/old/
# Specific section/directory combinations.
1 /usr/{share,X11R4,contrib,local}/{man/,man/old/}cat1
2 /usr/{share,X11R4,contrib,local}/{man/,man/old/}cat2
3 /usr/{share,X11R4,contrib,local}/{man/,man/old/}cat3
3F /usr/share/man/cat3f
3f /usr/share/man/cat3f
4 /usr/{share,X11R4,contrib,local}/{man/,man/old/}cat4
5 /usr/{share,X11R4,contrib,local}/{man/,man/old/}cat5
6 /usr/{share,X11R4,contrib,local}/{man/,man/old/}cat6
7 /usr/{share,X11R4,contrib,local}/{man/,man/old/}cat7
8 /usr/{share,X11R4,contrib,local}/{man/,man/old/}cat8
8 /usr/{share,X11R4,contrib,local}/{man/,man/old/}cat9
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