Re: Call for help: moving manpages to share/man

From: Moin Rahman <bofh_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 22:54:32 UTC

> On Jan 21, 2024, at 11:46 PM, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
> 
> Gleb Popov:
> 
>> portmgr@ is currently working on switching the directory into which
>> man pages are installed from "${PREFIX}/man" to "${PREFIX}/share/man".
>> 
>> I've created a branch [1] in my own fork that switches mandir for the
>> autotools build system and am inviting everyone to collaborate on
>> that, until all the fallout is fixed. I'm asking port maintainers to
>> check if they have ports with the "GNU_CONFIGURE=yes" knob, as these
>> are most likely broken by the switch. Moin kindly prepared a list of
>> affected ports along with their maintainers (thanks Moin!) [2]
> 
> I have definitely more ports that use GNU_CONFIGURE=yes and have
> man pages than are on this list.  For instance, archivers/gtar.
> Am I missing something or is that list incomplete?
> 
> Also, there are some instances of GNU_CONFIGURE=Yes in Mk/Uses/*.mk.
> Those won't show when looking at ports Makefiles.
> 
> --
> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de
> 

This list is an incomplete and ever changing one.

This was just a starting point extracted from my initial build.

Kind regards,
Moin