Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 09:30:03 -0700 (PDT) From: parv <parv@pair.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/37384: packaging of lang/expect fails Message-ID: <200205081630.g48GU3029783@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/37384; it has been noted by GNATS. From: parv <parv@pair.com> To: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/37384: packaging of lang/expect fails Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 12:23:39 -0400 in message <3CD93F54.3070006@inethouston.net>, wrote David W. Chapman Jr. thusly... > > So a simple fix is to set MANCOMPRESSED to no? that is not a fix. setting MANCOMPRESSED=no only avoids the problem to come up; fix would be if there were a way of compressing the man pages w/o error. > from the porters handbook > > To specify whether the manpages are compressed upon installation, > use the MANCOMPRESSED variable. This variable can take three > values, yes, no and maybe. yes means manpages are already > installed compressed, no means they are not, and maybe means the > software already respects the value of NOMANCOMPRESS so > bsd.port.mk does not have to do anything special. > > yes just means the man pages are compressed, no means they are > not, and maybe means the port respects NOMANCOMPRESS unless i am missing something deep, i set MANCOMPRESSED=yes in order to have compressed man pages installed -- which seems to be compatible w/ above quoted paragraph -- but the they weren't. only a list of man pages w/ '.gz' was created, but man pages were installed uncompressed. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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