Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 13:35:19 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: vanilla@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: manpages (Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/p5-Term-Query p5-Term-Query-2.0.tgz) Message-ID: <19980823133519.A242@zappo> In-Reply-To: <199808230815.BAA20523@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi Asami on Sun, Aug 23, 1998 at 01:15:05AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980823034855.236C-100000@localhost> <199808230815.BAA20523@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Sun, Aug 23, 1998 at 01:15:05AM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> * I very rarely use the clean target. The fact that it recurses to
> * dependencies has simply bitten me too many times.
>
> Why don't you define NOCLEANDEPENDS?
When I do use clean, it's because I want it to recurse. I suspect
it's easier to type the appropriate ``rm -Rf'' most of the time
than to type the appropriate unset+reset the few other times---
often I've finished typing the following ``make target'' before
the rm even returns.
> By the way, about manpages -- if there are ports that already handle
> NOMANCOMPRESS, maybe we should add a variable saying "this port honors
> NOMANCOMPRESS so bsd.port.mk shouldn't try to do something too
> clever". ".if !defined(NOMANCOMPRESS) MANCOMPRESSED=t" seems a little
> too ugly for my taste....
>From a sampling of 33 ports(*): four appear to go out of their way to
patch-in support for NOMANCOMPRESS and ten appear to support
NOMANCOMPRESS in their virgin sources.
Add to this the two ports I manually changed to ".if
!defined(NOMANCOMPRESS) MANCOMPRESSED=t".
(*) Not a random sampling---all 33 were not previously using the
MANx variables, and all 33 installed only one manpage. I
suspect that the remaining ~200 ports make much less use of
NOMANCOMPRESS (in their virgin sources, at least).
[Incidentally, tip-offs that the port may honour NOMANCOMPRESS are any
occurences of "NOMANCOMPRESS", "bsd.prog.mk", and "bsd.man.mk" in patches/,
scripts/, and the work/ (after ``make extract'')].
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