Re: [nedit-develop] Missing man pages in 5.6 release

[Daniel E. <dei...@fr...>]

Not sure why this got posted 4 times...

On Mon, 30 Mar 2015, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> The previous releases use to have the man pages generated and included.
> With 5.6, this is no longer the case.  There is a stanza in nedit's top
> Makefile that says:
>
> # This should not be in the default build, as users may not have Perl
> # installed.  This is only interesting to developers.
> docs:
> 	(cd doc; $(MAKE) all)
>
> It would be helpful to have the man pages included in the release.
>
> FYI, I am the FreeBSD maintainer for nedit, and will have to deal
> with adding hooks so the man pages can be generated - extra work
> for me since we haven't needed to do so before, and also forces
> perl5 to be installed (the pod2man syntax isn't compatible with
> pod2mdoc as far as I can tell).
>
>

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