Hello- I am working on some small cleanup patches to a couple port Makefiles and had a few questions on how to handle man/info pages.
I have come across a couple Makefiles that have something like this in post-install: .if defined(NOPORTDOCS) ... .else MAN1= portname.1 INFO= portname .endif It's my understanding after reading 5.9, 5.10, and 5.14.4 of the Porter's Handbook that the man and info page variables should be listed in the first part of the Makefile, before the .include <bsd.port.pre.mk> or .include <bsd.port.mk> for example. It also states in 5.14.4 that "Note: NOPORTDOCS only controls additional documentation installed in DOCSDIR. It does not apply to standard man page and info pages." This statement seems to indicate that the above snippet would still install the man/info pages even if NOPORTDOCS was set. I have also seen where the manpage and info page are then also listed in pkg-plist, which I gather should not be the case according to 5.9 of the Porter's Handbook. So, my questions are: Is the above handling of the man and info pages correct? It seems the answer is no, but just thought I would check. How does one choose not to install man and info pages if NOPORTDOCS does not apply to them? I seem to recall that there is a NO_INSTALL_MANPAGES knob but am not sure if that's the answer or if there is a NO_INSTALL_INFOPAGES. Is is correct procedure to never include man and info pages in the pkg-plist like Porter's Handbook states? Many thanks- Chess -- Chess Griffin GPG Public Key: 0x0C7558C3 http://www.chessgriffin.com
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