docs/109394: Clarify NOPORTDOCS in Porter's Handbook
Rong-En Fan
rafan at infor.org
Wed Feb 21 14:50:12 UTC 2007
>Number: 109394
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Clarify NOPORTDOCS in Porter's Handbook
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Feb 21 14:50:11 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Rong-En Fan
>Release: FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE amd64
>Organization:
NTU CSIE
>Environment:
>Description:
From time to time, people misunderstand NOPORTDOCS. It only controls
things in DOCSDIR, not EXAMPLESDIR/man pages/info pages.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Add a note to 12.9 Install additional documentation.
Index: book.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /big/freebsd-cvsup/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.802
diff -u -r1.802 book.sgml
--- book.sgml 20 Feb 2007 15:44:47 -0000 1.802
+++ book.sgml 21 Feb 2007 14:40:03 -0000
@@ -11314,6 +11314,13 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
+ <note>
+ <para><makevar>NOPORTDOCS</makevar> only controls additional
+ documentation installed in <makevar>DOCSDIR</makevar>. It does not
+ apply to standard man pages, info pages and things installed in
+ <makevar>DATADIR</makevar>, <makevar>EXAMPLESDIR</makevar>.</para>
+ </note>
+
<para>These variables are exported to <makevar>PLIST_SUB</makevar>.
Their values will appear there as pathnames relative to
<filename><makevar>PREFIX</makevar></filename> if possible.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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