From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 5 06:40:00 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B0B11065670 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 06:40:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sagara@tomahawk.com.sg) Received: from us1.tomahawkonline.net (us1.tomahawkonline.net [66.98.178.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AAC708FC0A for ; Sat, 5 Dec 2009 06:39:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 20398 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2009 03:16:01 -0000 Received: from 121.7.63.242 (HELO ?192.168.1.64?) (sagara@tomahawk.com.sg@121.7.63.242) by us1.tomahawkonline.net with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 5 Dec 2009 03:16:01 -0000 Message-ID: <4B19FFDE.2010709@tomahawk.com.sg> Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:38:22 +0800 From: Sagara Wijetunga User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Powell References: <4B18CD57.5090108@tomahawk.com.sg> <20091204193219.GA84026@dan.emsphone.com> <4B19EC94.8040901@tomahawk.com.sg> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: malformed man pages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:40:00 -0000 Michael Powell wrote: > Sagara Wijetunga wrote: > > [snip] > >> We use /usr/bin/less from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less, the >> less-382.tar.gz, unpatched. >> > > Why? > > >> Does the less need to be patched in FreeBSD? If so, is there such a >> patch exist? >> >> > > Uhmm, this may sound a little strange, but why not use the one included as > part of the system? In other words, there was no need to 'install' less. > Remove whatever you installed and use the right one. It even has a man page, > e.g., man less and you will see a man page for the included one unless > you've made a total mess of your man pages. > > I suspect there may be a possibility of bringing "Linuxisms" to your > approach to FreeBSD. While there may be some amount of crossover, FreeBSD is > not Linux. Learn FreeBSD as if it were new to you and leave the Linuxisms > aside. > > -Mike > > > > In Tomahawk Desktop, we try to make as much as possible all components of the OS are separately installable by the user, therefore, all components are separately upgradeable. We have a really running well OS based on FreeBSD sources though there are some hopefully minor issues to be resolved. We are about to release the OS for developer preview. As the less we installed was too old, we have upgraded our less to less-436.tar.gz from http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/. Again unpatched. The result is the same. Are we sure less is the culprit? Regards Sagara