Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 20:00:36 -0500 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.Org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compress manuals or not Message-ID: <19981114200036.A11037@mrmell> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981111184533.00926710@localhost>; from Kurt D. Zeilenga on Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 06:45:33PM -0800 References: <3.0.5.32.19981111184533.00926710@localhost>
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On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 06:45:33PM -0800, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote: > I am working an autoconf build environment for OpenLDAP 1.1. > I am trying to sort out how to properly detect if the > system supports compress man pages, if so, which Just install them however it's most convenient. The port Makefile needs to list them in its MAN? variables either way. No patches necessary either way. If you really want, you can check NOMANCOMPRESS and obey it, but that makes your autoconf script more complicated. The best autoconf scripts are the simplest autoconf scripts. Flipping between compressed and uncompressed based on the FreeBSD release number will make everyone's life more complicated. > distribution tarball or the ports/packages. That is, > I'd like to eliminate the need for port/package > maintainer to have to patch our distribution. I don't know what other porting issues exist, but in general, allowing configure options to be specified via a ./configure --option (as opposed to assuming you always intuit the correct value) is enough configurability. > Is there a better way to determine which compress > command/suffix to use generally? Don't use .Z! -- 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
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