groff alternative?

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Wed Apr 27 13:32:18 PDT 2005


Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl at gmx.net> writes:
> I'm using NO_CXX in my make.conf to strip down the base system to
> ~50MB including man pages. The only problem is that groff is missing
> if I don't build c++, and even if I build groff itself and the
> needed libstdc++ it costs me about 10MB. If I just skip NO_CXX it's
> only 500k more, so I moved my patches to /dev/null.

Install pre-rendered man pages instead of the mdoc source, and fake up
a shell script that locates the appropriate page, decompresses it and
pipes it to $PAGER.

DES
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