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From: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>
To: Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz>
Cc: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: mandoc-1.13.4 released
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 20:04:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160719180440.GM20281@athene.usta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160717103432.GA54145@www.stare.cz>

Hi Jan,

Jan Stary wrote on Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 12:34:32PM +0200:
> On Jul 14 16:48:20, schwarze@usta.de wrote:

>> mandoc = mdocml 1.13.4 is now publicly available
>> from <http://mdocml.bsd.lv/>.

> testing downstream, it builds and works fine on Debian 7.10.

Thanks, noted on http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ports.html .

> I have not built CGI though as I don't use it.

No problem, that is rarely used, and people needing it will
know how to cope.

> See below for a diff fixing a typo.

Thanks, committed.

> Also, the example configure.local says
> 
>   # Force usage of man.conf(5).
>   # If it does not exist or contains no valid configuration,
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   # man(1), makewhatis(8), and apropos(1) will not work properly.
>   HAVE_MANPATH=0
> 
> But the presence of man.conf is optional, right?

Correct.  It was required some time ago, but that's no longer true.

So i deleted the misleading sentence.  No replacement is needed.
Getting the documentation shorter without less of correctness
and clarity is always nice.

Yours,
  Ingo


Log Message:
-----------
Remove one outdated comment and fix one typo
noted by Jan Stary <hans at stare dot cz>.

Modified Files:
--------------
    mdocml:
        configure.local.example

Revision Data
-------------
Index: configure.local.example
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mdocml/mdocml/configure.local.example,v
retrieving revision 1.13
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -Lconfigure.local.example -Lconfigure.local.example -u -p -r1.13 -r1.14
--- configure.local.example
+++ configure.local.example
@@ -91,8 +91,6 @@ MANDIR="${PREFIX}/man"
 HAVE_MANPATH=1
 
 # Force usage of man.conf(5).
-# If it does not exist or contains no valid configuration,
-# man(1), makewhatis(8), and apropos(1) will not work properly.
 HAVE_MANPATH=0
 
 # Some distributions may want to avoid naming conflicts
@@ -198,7 +196,7 @@ BINM_MAKEWHATIS=mandocdb	# default is "m
 PREFIX="/usr/local"
 HOMEBREWDIR="${PREFIX}/Cellar"
 
-# --- user settings related man.cgi ------------------------------------
+# --- user settings related to man.cgi ---------------------------------
 
 # By default, building man.cgi(8) is disabled.  To enable it, copy
 # cgi.h.example to cgi.h, edit it, and use the following line.
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      reply	other threads:[~2016-07-19 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-14 14:48 Ingo Schwarze
2016-07-17 10:34 ` Jan Stary
2016-07-19 18:04   ` Ingo Schwarze [this message]

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