Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 03:20:27 -0600 From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 Makefile Message-ID: <20020217092027.GA68818@mppsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20020215080106.A63564@iguana.icir.org> References: <200202150836.g1F8a6P53451@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020215104025.A1139@sunbay.com> <20020215004331.B62826@iguana.icir.org> <20020215120056.A13211@sunbay.com> <20020215080106.A63564@iguana.icir.org>
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On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 08:01:06AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:00:56PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > > > (wonder why the process cannot be made automatic...)
> > > > >
> > > > What do you mean?
> > >
> > > couldn't the Makefile derive a tentative list of targets by doing
> > >
> > > MAN=`ls *.4`
> > >
> > This would be bogus for a variety of reasons:
> >
> > 1. != type of assignment means ls(1) should be present in PATH during
> > installworld, and we don't have it there (${STRICTTMPPATH}:${INSTALLTMP}).
>
> this is a very weak motivation. we already need a lot of stuff to be
> in the path during the install (make, cp, compiler, mkdir, install, ...)
> so i guess making sure there is ls as well command is no big deal.
> For what matters, "echo *.4" (shell builtin) would do the job.
> As for removing entries, of course we can use variable expansions
> (maybe after creating the initial list, just to avoid cluttering too
> much the code), and possibly put something in the *.mk files which
> computes set differences.
In the past we have had a lot of man pages not be installed from
/usr/src/share/man* because someone forgot to add them to the makefile.
This has also been true in other non-man page directories,
/usr/src/lib/libc/* to name one. So having the process automated
isn't a bad idea.
If it is automated, then there has to be something in place so that
we can exclude certain man pages from being built / installed.
In the past I have had to comment out man pages from the makefiles
for various reasons. E.g. the interface radically changed over a release,
but the man page was not updated, or the interface was still under
development and wasn't ready for prime time yet, or the man page
was just plain broken, etc.
-Mike
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