On Sun, 22 May 2005, Mark Davies wrote:

>      Is it just me or is the handling of the names of imake generated manual
> pages in PLIST's broken?
>
> The make framework defines various variables with platform specific values for
> substitution into PLIST's including: IMAKE_MAN_SUFFIX, IMAKE_LIBMAN_SUFFIX,
> IMAKE_KERNMAN_SUFFIX, IMAKE_FILEMAN_SUFFIX, IMAKE_MISCMAN_SUFFIX
> and  IMAKE_MANNEWSUFFIX
>
> but in the PLIST's (or anywhere else) _only_ IMAKE_MANNEWSUFFIX is used
> irrespective of what manual section it goes in.

I have had the same problem a few times and have patches like:

--- net/tightvncviewer/PLIST    3 Mar 2003 02:56:00 -0000       1.5
+++ net/tightvncviewer/PLIST    21 May 2005 15:58:46 -0000
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 @comment $NetBSD: PLIST,v 1.5 2003/03/03 02:56:00 jschauma Exp $
 bin/vncviewer
 lib/X11/app-defaults/Vncviewer
-${IMAKE_MAN_DIR}/vncviewer.${IMAKE_MANNEWSUFFIX}
+man/man1/vncviewer.1
 share/doc/vncviewer/README
 @dirrm share/doc/vncviewer

I also posted about this last year:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2004/05/10/0014.html

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2004/05/10/0015.html


 Jeremy C. Reed

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