On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Conrad J. Sabatier <conr...@cox.net> wrote: > If anyone's interested, the package is call mkreadmes-1.0. It's a C > language version of the port's collection's "make readmes" (or, if you > will, the perl "make_readmes" script under the Tools directory). I > wrote this because I was very dissatisfied with the speed of rebuilding > the README.html files after I update my ports tree. This new tool I've > written cuts the time down to practically nothing. I can now rebuild > all the README.html files for the entire ports tree in less than 30 > seconds. Depending on system load, I've actually seen it run in as > little as @ 15 seconds. > > If you want to try it before it becomes an official port, it's already > available on Sourceforge right now. It should compile and install very > easily on any FreeBSD system, even without the port framework wrapper. > > The source archive is available at: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mkreadmes/files/mkreadmes-1.0.tar.bz2/download > > A README file is included in the distribution. Online help is also > available via the "-h" command line option. > > Please don't hesitate to send me any questions, comments, suggestions, > bug reports, etc.
Conrad, Thanks so much for mkreadmes. It works as advertised and this is the first time in years that I have built all of the READMEs because it just took way, way too long to do so before mkreadmes. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
