Re: [Bacula-devel] Re: man page for bacula

[Dan L. <da...@la...>]

On 1 Nov 2005 at 21:31, Kern Sibbald wrote:

> On Tuesday 01 November 2005 20:18, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 November 2005 20:06, Dan Langille wrote:
> > > Can someone confirm that the man page in the 1.38.0 tarball is good
> > > for them?  I'm getting errors when installing it under FreeBSD.  This
> > > might be a configuration issue here, and not a source file issue at
> > > all.
> > >
> > > I'm seeing errors that may be the result of my FreeBSD porting
> > > attempts or they could be in the file itself.  I don't know enough
> > > about man pages to verify.
> > >
> > > The following might not be relevant, but here you go:
> > >
> > > MAN8=   /usr/home/dan/src/bacula-client/work/bacula-
> > > 1.38.0/scripts/bacula.man
> >
> > There should not be any spaces after the MAN8=  and the /.  That is most
> > likely what is confusing the shell.
> 
> Hmmm. In reading my email, I find it not very clear. I hope you understood. 
> There shouldn't be any spaces *between* the = and /.  I.e.
> 
> MAN8=/usr/home/dan/src/bacula-client/work/bacula-1.38.0/scripts/bacula.man
> 
> should work a bit better.
> 
> >
> > > .": not found
> > > .": not found
> > > .": not found
> > > .": not found
> > > .": not found
> > > .": not found
> > > .TH: not found
> > > .SH: not found
> > > Bacula: not found
> > > .SH: not found
> > > .B: not found
> > > .br: not found
> > > .B: not found
> > > .br: not found
> > > .B: not found
> > > .br: not found
> > > .B: not found
> > > .br: not found
> > > .B: not found
> > > .br: not found
> > > .SH: not found
> > > .LP: not found
> > > /usr/home/dan/src/bacula-client/work/bacula-
> > > 1.38.0/scripts/bacula.man: 23: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
> > >
> > >
> > > That's when FreeBSD attempts to install the man page.  I don't know
> > > enough about the process to elaborate.

I'm gettintg there.  I'm learning more about the tools in the FreeBSD 
ports tree. This is why port/package mantainers should be highly 
regarded.  ;)
-- 
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