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

On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 1:19 PM Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> wrote:
> More than that,
> changing the default for a given build system instantly breaks all
> ports that use it, which means that this task can't be done
> incrementally in the main branch.
>
> 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.

Fellow porters.

There was unfortunately a miscommunication from my side with the
portmgr@ team on that topic. This resulted in the incoordination and
the duplicated work being done - some people were working on the
autotools-mandir branch (without adding the GNU_CONFIGURE_MANPREFIX
knob) while others just kept fixing ports in the main branch (by
adding GNU_CONFIGURE_MANPREFIX knob to each port).

From now anyone wanting to help with the mandir switch should base
their commits on the main branch. Autotools ports would then require
adding

GNU_CONFIGURE_MANPREFIX= ${PREFIX}/share

to them.

I'm sorry for causing some of you to do useless work. Thanks to
everyone who submitted patches to my branch, I'll reapply them to the
main branch myself.