From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from acme.spoerlein.net (acme.spoerlein.net [188.72.220.29]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o5EKMYWv004375 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:22:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from acme.spoerlein.net (localhost.spoerlein.net [IPv6:::1]) by acme.spoerlein.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o5EKMXDf075820 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:22:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from uqs@spoerlein.net) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=spoerlein.net; s=dkim200908; t=1276546953; bh=9sDOwd48iA5ZMAKFocycRRS4mSzcLHYsN9DWb3DtecU=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:In-Reply-To; b=BXAti3oynjH8bY0cooz9iOe7ps87yXSVkejw32wbOOPB+v4czBYL2QYQ217pOT0h6 wxjpsMwfKYbEiaz94E8pYC33HAa6wXqkctMswh2u9WzRk6VyHAu3pAgYClUw6lvE82 V8UzK8MT6o0rrmeHrBEQEAUjgq+darcFrCK2YG2w= Received: (from uqs@localhost) by acme.spoerlein.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o5EKMXRo075809 for tech@mdocml.bsd.lv; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:22:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from uqs@spoerlein.net) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:22:33 +0200 From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: Reducing uname footer string on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20100614202232.GG3632@acme.spoerlein.net> References: <20100609163447.GA39829@acme.spoerlein.net> <20100613211320.GA1492@britannica.bec.de> <20100614173256.GE3632@acme.spoerlein.net> <20100614193457.GA4838@britannica.bec.de> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-tech Reply-To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20100614193457.GA4838@britannica.bec.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 -- To unsubscribe send an email to tech+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv