Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:49:23 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> Subject: Re: troubles rebuilding extensions.ini Message-ID: <20110122094923.8bbf898b.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20110122081828.GA17465@thought.org> References: <20110121234315.GA81778@thought.org> <4D3A1B89.6050108@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <AANLkTinBpmLfdUvG7BdtfoYgmGr=Ts5Q2w2zpk-Z%2BLtn@mail.gmail.com> <20110122064323.abafdd4d.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110122081828.GA17465@thought.org>
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:18:28 -0800, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 06:43:23AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > Just see "man ports" for a list of all targets. > > Ye Gods. The ports manpage is almost unreadable. Not to > mention full of non-ASCII bytes. Those should be the representation of text attributes, rendered according to the terminals's capabilities (e. g. reverse, bold, underline). They should not be displayed as-is. What $PAGER are you using? It should be more or less "more" or "less". :-) Try "man -Pless ports" and display should be fine. To get a readable PDF output of the manpage, use % zcat `man -w ports` | groff -Tps -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 -mandoc | ps2pdf - ports.pdf % xpdf ports.pdf Select different format than A4 if needed, and PDF viewer respectively. Even % zcat `man -w ports` | groff -Tps -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4 -mandoc | gv - does work, omitting the PDF and "presistent result file" steps. In my opinion, "man ports" gives a good overview about all the targets common to ports, as well as the environmental variables that control the work of "make" in relation to the ports collection. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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