From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Aug 21 10:13:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA04098 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 10:13:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.my.domain (ppp6593.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.208.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA04091; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 10:13:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hoek@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: (from tim@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA02106; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 12:43:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Message-ID: <19980821124309.A217@zappo> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 12:43:09 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Satoshi Asami , jseger@freebsd.scds.com Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to deal with manpages in multiple locations References: <199808210318.XAA14888@freebsd.scds.com> <199808210439.VAA11097@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199808210439.VAA11097@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi Asami on Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 09:39:29PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 09:39:29PM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: [Re: handling multiple MAN3PREFIX paths] > As for the general case, I can't think of anything else than what you > suggested. Change _MANPAGES directly. Whoever writes support for MLINKSx should take especial care to make a mechanism to handle this (I'm thinking particularly of ports that install to /prefix/x/man/ and populate /prefix/man/ with links to each entry in /x/man/). My suggestion would be to recognize absolute paths. -- This .sig is not innovative, witty, or profund. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message