Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 12:43:09 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, jseger@freebsd.scds.com Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to deal with manpages in multiple locations Message-ID: <19980821124309.A217@zappo> In-Reply-To: <199808210439.VAA11097@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi Asami on Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 09:39:29PM -0700 References: <199808210318.XAA14888@freebsd.scds.com> <199808210439.VAA11097@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 09:39:29PM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: [Re: handling multiple MAN3PREFIX paths] > As for the general case, I can't think of anything else than what you > suggested. Change _MANPAGES directly. Whoever writes support for MLINKSx should take especial care to make a mechanism to handle this (I'm thinking particularly of ports that install to /prefix/x/man/ and populate /prefix/man/ with links to each entry in /x/man/). My suggestion would be to recognize absolute paths. -- 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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