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Perl-Toolchain-Gang / ExtUtils-MakeMaker

Perl module to make Makefiles and build modules (what backs Makefile.PL)
https://metacpan.org/release/ExtUtils-MakeMaker
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Support more manpage targets #233

Open bingos opened 9 years ago

bingos commented 9 years ago

Following a conversation on #pkgsrc IRC channel on Freenode:

[11:46] < nbjoerg> BinGOs: from what I see the problem is that installing category 5 man pages is not supported [11:46] < nbjoerg> BinGOs: is there a good reason for that? [11:47] < BinGOs> well before my time maintaining this beast [11:48] < nbjoerg> I can see god reasons for at least category 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 [11:48] < nbjoerg> 2, 4 and 9 likely don't make much sense for a perl application

I think we only have 1 and 3 right now.

karenetheridge commented 9 years ago

I think we only have 1 and 3 right now.

Right -- I suspect this would have to change in core first before EUMM can do anything.

Leont commented 9 years ago

I'm not sure what would be a good interface for this, but it shouldn't be too hard to implement.

Right -- I suspect this would have to change in core first before EUMM can do anything.

Not really. Pod::Man supports it fine, it's just that MakeMaker is telling it that it's category 1/3.

haarg commented 9 years ago

But the location for the man pages comes from the config vars like installman3dir, which only exist for sections 1 and 3.

Leont commented 9 years ago

But the location for the man pages comes from the config vars like installman3dir, which only exist for sections 1 and 3.

Right, I forgot about that, though in practice it should be easy enough to fake that