On 19 December 2011 00:08, Ben Kaduk <minimar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Christer Edwards
> <christer.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The port I'm working on includes about a half-dozen man pages which I
>> understand I need to use MANn to install. What I guess I don't fully
>> understand is how to path those files. If the files are found in the
>> extracted source under source-version/doc/man/ should I use:
>>
>> MAN1= doc/man/manpage.1
>> MAN7= doc/man/manpage.7
>> ...etc...
>>
>> or do I need to reference ${WORKSRC}/doc/man/ ?
>
> MANn takes the place of adding entries to the plist (allowing for the
> use of MANCOMPRESSED and such). Accordingly, the files referenced are
> nominally in the installed tree, but the MANn magic knows about
> MANPREFIX, so you should just use MAN1= manpage.1 with no other path
> components.
>
>>
>> Do I also need to install the man pages in do-install?
>>
>> ${INSTALL_MAN} ${WRKSRC}/doc/man/manpage.1 ${PREFIX}/man/man1
>
> You need to ensure that they end up in $MANPREFIX, so yes.
Late reply, sorry!
Please use the more specific variables MANnPREFIX, for example:
${INSTALL_MAN} ${WRKSRC}/doc/man/manpage.1 ${MAN1PREFIX}/man/man1
Chris
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