Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 02:29:18 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Which OS does a man page come from? (was: cvs commit: src/bi Message-ID: <200108070829.f778TI113023@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Aug 2001 10:20:42 %2B0200." <29772.997172442@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> References: <29772.997172442@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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In message <29772.997172442@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Sheldon Hearn writes:
: > : As I said: we add the .Os and .Dd when installing.
: >
: > How is that different than just copying the mandoc macros that were
: > used to build the man pages from the {cd, network, wherever} you got
: > the man page sources from?
:
: Um, Warner, the point is that right now, if Greg copies an installed
: _source_ manual page from a FreeBSD system, he gets an empty Os macro:
:
: .Os
:
: If we do as he suggests, he'll get a populated Os macro:
:
: .Os FreeBSD 4.5
I understand that. My point is why not pull the macros used to create
the man pages from the same place you pulled the man pages. Eg, snag
/usr/share/tmac at the same time you snagged the man page and setenv
GROFF_TMAC_PATH to be where you stashed it. I don't see how this is
different than grabbing old Makefiles and having them produce
different results on new machine or machines with different kinds of
make...
: > Adding the .Os and .Dd at install time seems ugly to me.
:
: Why? It's just a little Makefile magic. We don't actually add the
: macro, just an argument, and only in the case where there are no
: arguments, e.g.
:
: s/^\.Os$/.Os FreeBSD 4.5/g
Because it is another target? You'd have foo.5 which would somehow
get generated from foo.5 which seems gross to me from a make point of
view. I guess I don't see how that's transparently done in the build
process.
Warner
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