Dealing with an external manpage

Emanuel Haupt ehaupt at FreeBSD.org
Mon Dec 11 01:23:06 PST 2006


> I was successful at creating the manpage for the port i'm working on.
> My  problem is I'm not sure how to install it. The porter's Handbook
> wasn't much  help. The manpage is in files and I need to compress and
> install it in man8  like a normal manpage from workdir, I'm just not
> sure what to put in the  makefile. Could someone give me a hand here?
> Most of the examples I found  dealt with extra docs.

Have a look at ${INSTALL_MAN}. Take ports/dns/sshfp as an example.

HTH
Emanuel


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