docs/173321: ports(7) man page -- no info on building with debugging info

Chris Rees crees at FreeBSD.org
Sat Nov 3 09:20:01 UTC 2012


The following reply was made to PR docs/173321; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Chris Rees <crees at FreeBSD.org>
To: "bug-followup at freebsd.org" <bug-followup at freebsd.org>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/173321: ports(7) man page -- no info on building with
 debugging info
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 09:12:12 +0000

 I think that we should just make the manpage a stub pointing to (in
 /usr/ports) README, Mk/bsd.options.desc.mk and the comments in
 bsd.port.mk.
 
 The ports tree evolves so quickly that any man page written for it
 will immediately be out of date and incorrect.
 
 Anyone else agree?
 
 Chris


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