From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from www.sonnenberger.org (www.sonnenberger.org [92.79.50.50]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o5EJbAkV014303 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:37:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from britannica.bec.de (www.sonnenberger.org [192.168.1.10]) by www.sonnenberger.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E7B966777 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:37:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: by britannica.bec.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E292C150A1; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:34:57 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:34:57 +0200 From: Joerg Sonnenberger To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: Reducing uname footer string on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20100614193457.GA4838@britannica.bec.de> Mail-Followup-To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv References: <20100609163447.GA39829@acme.spoerlein.net> <20100613211320.GA1492@britannica.bec.de> <20100614173256.GE3632@acme.spoerlein.net> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-tech Reply-To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20100614173256.GE3632@acme.spoerlein.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 07:32:56PM +0200, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > > Have you considered just using -DOSNAME="\"FreeBSD 8.1\""? > > Yes, but this gets messy when you are running an older mandoc binary on > a newer FreeBSD release. It will simply display stale information and > this requires Makefile trickery I'd really like to avoid. Yes, but it is not different from the situation you currently have w.r.t. groff if you consider /usr/share/tmac part of the binary. That said, I found the version number never very useful at all for the same reason. Joerg -- To unsubscribe send an email to tech+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv