From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 26 13:38:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (sentinel.office1.bg [195.24.48.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10E7B37B719 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 13:38:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 6624 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Mar 2001 21:37:44 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 00:37:44 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Kris Kennaway Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ** HEADS UP **: bsd.man.mk changes Message-ID: <20010327003744.A4326@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Kris Kennaway , current@FreeBSD.org, committers@FreeBSD.org References: <20010326180338.A43557@sunbay.com> <20010326132808.C7234@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010326132808.C7234@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 01:28:09PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 01:28:09PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:03:38PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > Hi! > > > > The syntax for declaring manual pages has been changed. > > > > The manual pages to be installed can now be listed in a > > single MAN variable. The old MAN[1-9] syntax is still > > supported, for backwards compatibility. > > > > The plan is to MFC this feature after 4.3 release, and > > start the deorbit sequence for MAN[1-9] syntax. > > > > Developers, please make sure all new Makefiles use the > > new syntax. > > I welcome the changes, but don't think the old version should be > removed: third party software uses it, and it would not serve any > purpose to break them. I'm definitely with Kris on this one; and I know of at least two other people, who are using the bsd.*.mk files (albeit a little modified), in their work. G'luck, Peter -- If wishes were fishes, the antecedent of this conditional would be true. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message