Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 12:11:46 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Listing manpages in Makefiles Message-ID: <19980831121146.A2526@zappo> In-Reply-To: <199808310945.CAA08994@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi Asami on Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 02:45:24AM -0700 References: <19980829011349.A13277@zappo> <199808310945.CAA08994@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 02:45:24AM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> * I said 1) ports should use ``.include "somefile"'' to include the manpage
> * list.
>
> Either that, or we can include it from bsd.port.mk. Just a simple
> ".if exists(...) .include(...)" so it's not much work either way.
The one disadvantage to including it from bsd.port.mk is that MAN? and
MLINKS won't be available to the Makefile. A number of ports seem to
have rules
.for z in ${MAN1}
${INSTALL_MAN} ...
.endfor
I don't know how large the set-intersection is of ports that do
the above and ports that have so many manpages they would use
pkg/MEN.
The other reason I don't like including it from bsd.port.mk is that I
already find myself being hijacked by scripts that do patching,
configuring, etc.. It's nice if you can see right away from the
Makefile that the manpages are listed elsewhere.
> * I would like to propose that the filename used be "files/manpages".
>
> I thought you preferred "pkg/MEN"? :)
I personallly did. I wasn't sure what others would make of it. :-)
> MAN3+= eek.3
> MAN3+= yikes.3
> ===
>
> could reduce the amount of manual labor of upgrading by making it
> easily scriptable (easy to keep it sorted and using "cvs diff" to see
> the changes too).
Sure, so long as you're planning to periodically enforce this format. :)
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