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Date:      Sat, 20 Nov 1999 19:59:45 +0000
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>, andrew@ugh.net.au, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Making a port kit
Message-ID:  <19991120195945.B621@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <3836F676.CB4D2D9F@softweyr.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911191511190.44918-100000@hub.freebsd.org> <3836F676.CB4D2D9F@softweyr.com>

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Wes Peters wrote:

> Nope, and it seems difficult to have a mistyped path when you don't have
> any paths anywhere.  The only paths are in the obliterate makefile:
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ snip ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> CFLAGS=         -g
> PROG=           obliterate
> SRCS=           obliterate.c
> MAN8=           obliterate.8
> BINDIR=         ${PREFIX}/bin
> MANDIR=         ${PREFIX}/man
> 
> .include <bsd.prog.mk>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ snip ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Which part of MANDIR did I misspell, the "m", "a", or "n"?

I think it should be ${PREFIX}/man/man, I don't know why, but it
should be from what I can tell. MAN8 should be in both Makefiles, with
MANCOMPRESSED=yes set in the port Makefile as someone else suggested so
the installation procedure doesn't try to compress them when they are
already compressed.

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