Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 14:38:14 +0200 From: Phil Pennock <pdp@nl.demon.net> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: PAPERSIZE, A4 vs a4, html2ps request Message-ID: <20030725123814.GA28961@samhain.noc.nl.demon.net>
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Hi,
This is with a Ports tree updated minutes ago, on FreeBSD 5.1.
Living in Europe, I use A4 paper; many ports with printing support
default to US "letter", so I set a couple of definitions in
/etc/make.conf which didn't seem likely to conflict with other possible
meanings, but were used by various ports:
A4= yes
PAPERSIZE= A4
I just did a "make index" in /usr/ports/ and found some error messages
at the start of INDEX-5:
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*** Error code 1|||||||
Invalid value for PAPERSIZE: "A4"|||||||
Possible values are: a4 and letter.|||||||
Stop in /usr/ports/math.|||||||
Stop in /usr/ports.|||||||
Stop.|||||||
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This came from math/R-letter.
It turns out that most ports using PAPERSIZE want "a4", not "A4":
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/usr/ports$ find . -maxdepth 3 -name Makefile -print0 | \
xargs -0 fgrep PAPERSIZE |tee ~/papers
/usr/ports$ cd
$ grep -c a4 papers
21
$ grep -c 'A4$' papers ; grep -c 'A4[^_]' papers
1
1
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Some of the occurences are for "A4_PAPERSIZE", but not all. The only
two ports which accept an uppercase "A4" as a value for ${PAPERSIZE}
are:
print/html2ps-letter (from print/html2ps-a4)
print/psutils-letter
psutils-letter accepts both "A4" and "a4".
This leaves just html2ps-letter, for which <ports@freebsd.org> is the
listed maintainer; html2ps-a4 sets PAPERSIZE=A4 and html2ps-letter just
passes this through in SCRIPTS_ENV to scripts/pre-configure, which
patches the install script that's part of the port's source.
Could html2ps-letter please be amended to uppercase a PAPERSIZE of
[ab]\d+ to [AB]\d+ ? I don't know whether you prefer to do this in
scripts/pre-configure or in the Makefile, but it's fairly trivial and
would lead to a consistent Ports tree approach to ${PAPERSIZE}
definitions. I can of course offer a patch, if someone can state which
place should be patched?
Thanks,
--
Phil Pennock, Senior Systems Administrator, Demon Internet Netherlands
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