From owner-freebsd-ports Wed May 8 9:30:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C12F337B407 for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 09:30:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g48GU7o29791; Wed, 8 May 2002 09:30:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 09:30:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200205081630.g48GU7o29791@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: "David W. Chapman Jr." Subject: Re: ports/37384: packaging of lang/expect fails Reply-To: "David W. Chapman Jr." Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/37384; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: parv Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." , freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/37384: packaging of lang/expect fails Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 11:24:43 -0500 On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 12:23:39PM -0400, parv wrote: > 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. No, MANCOMPRESSED=YES means the port compresses the manpages for you. MANCOMPRESSED=NO means the port doesn't compress the man pages and MANCOMPRESSED=maybe means it respects NOMANCOMPRESS -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message