Subject: Re: XFree 4 & html manpages
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/31/2001 22:48:10
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> XFree 4 formats manpages into HTML per default, using rman. This leads to
> problems in pkgsrc because the PLIST is different fur XF3 and XF4. Does
> any XF4 enclued being know
>  * if it's possible to keep XF4 from converting manpages to HTML
>    (which is, I think, the best thing, given that manpages can be
>    viewed the traditional way, and that we don't ship a html viewer)

I believe you could add

#define BuildHtmlManPages NO

to "NetBSD.cf", as is already done in linux.cf. Users could override
by adding

#undef	BuildHtmlManPages
#define BuildHtmlManPages YES

to "host.def".


Frederick