proposal to enable to skip installation of perl mod man pages

Sergey Matveychuk sem at ciam.ru
Fri Dec 5 05:50:26 PST 2003


Masafumi NAKANE wrote:

> 1. If you build lang/perl5{,.8} with NO_PERL_MAN3 defined, Configure
>    is run with -Dman3dir=' ', resulting in skipping of mod man page
>    installation.
> 
> 2. For any p5-* port that uses MakeMaker module (PERL_CONFIGURE=yes),
>    MAN3 will be undef'ed if either NO_PERL_MAN3 is defined, or
>    ${PERL5} was build and installed with NO_PERL_MAN3.

Why don't you use NO_INSTALL_MANPAGES variable instead of NO_PERL_MAN3?
Special variable for perl man pages looks weird.

2tobez: what about my patches? It has passed a long time...

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Sem.



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