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From: "Ulrich Spörlein" <uqs@spoerlein.net>
To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: Reducing uname footer string on FreeBSD
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:22:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100614202232.GG3632@acme.spoerlein.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100614193457.GA4838@britannica.bec.de>

On Mon, 14.06.2010 at 21:34:57 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 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.

It is indeed pretty pointless when running man(1), but comes in very
handy when you look at HTML renderings of manpages somewhere on the web.

I will keep the diff local for now, the special casing isn't worthwhile
unless there's demand.

Uli
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      reply	other threads:[~2010-06-14 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-09 16:34 Ulrich Spörlein
2010-06-12 17:18 ` Ingo Schwarze
2010-06-13 19:32   ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-06-14 17:36     ` Ulrich Spörlein
2010-06-13 21:13 ` Joerg Sonnenberger
2010-06-14 17:32   ` Ulrich Spörlein
2010-06-14 19:34     ` Joerg Sonnenberger
2010-06-14 20:22       ` Ulrich Spörlein [this message]

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