Hi Jason, Jason McIntyre wrote on Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 07:23:47PM +0059: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 06:34:25PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>>> (3) tomorrow: send patches to switch "tbl | nroff" >>> over to mandoc in the base build system >>> (4) tomorrow: send patches to unlink the last me(7) and ms(7) >>> documents form the base build >> That's what this message is about, see below. >> >> I have already tested the relevant parts of the base build with it, >> and I'm starting a full base build (i386) with it right now. >> In case mobody else wants to do that, i will try a xenocara build >> after that. > i've run this through a build of base, amd64 machine, with MANPS set. > no problems building. the man pages look fine on the terminal, Thanks a lot for checking! > but tables do not work at all for postscript pages - > don;t know if you know that or not. Frankly, i feared as much; but as MANPS is off by default and it affects merely 16 pages, and it was rather unlikely to kill the build, i didn't want to waste any time on that particular problem right now. I think tbl -Tps can be fixed later. > note i do not have xenocara source, so did not build X. > > i can;t see any other problems. > > one question (not just for ingo) - > what are we doing with the me/ms pages? The patch i just sent simply unlinks them from the build, such that they no longer get installed. > we have sufficiently removed enough of them that i think > it's just not worth keeping the rest. especially if we don;t > anticipate a means to view them in base (or do we?). perhaps we > could just distribute them as ascii text files? I do not hold strong opinions on these questions. Yours, Ingo
