From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29118 invoked by alias); 11 Nov 2013 16:42:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 31956 Received: (qmail 3301 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2013 16:42:38 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 From: Bart Schaefer Message-id: <131111084228.ZM26372@torch.brasslantern.com> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:42:28 -0800 In-reply-to: Comments: In reply to Martin Vaeth "Re: Install run-help and *.zwc files system wide in build system" (Nov 11, 9:09am) References: <20131110181333.7682d38f@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> <131110183043.ZM21795@torch.brasslantern.com> X-Mailer: OpenZMail Classic (0.9.2 24April2005) To: zsh-workers@zsh.org Subject: Re: Install run-help and *.zwc files system wide in build system MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Nov 11, 9:09am, Martin Vaeth wrote: } } > Another suggestion (I've probably made this one before in past years) } > would be to do all of this in perl directly in Util/helpfiles, instead } > of needing other external processes piped into it. } } This sounds rather cumbersome since it would mean that you need } parts of groff (line-wrapping and several special code) implemented } in perl. No, you misunderstand. Perl would still run and read the man|colcrt pipeline, but all the environment setup and locale testing would be done in perl instead of in shell. Convert generate-help.sh into perl, but not the external commands generate-help.sh runs.