Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-AuthUser: gerrit:koeln.convey.de Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 01:22:37 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit @ cygwin" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1891600152077.20030806012237@familiehaase.de> To: Nicholas Wourms CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.x goes current on 2003-08-23? In-Reply-To: <3F2EF2B6.2000205@netscape.net> References: <20030802152342.GA17734@redhat.com> <801335991093.20030802235956@familiehaase.de> <3F2D3E4E.7020508@netscape.net> <1071417173257.20030803223258@familiehaase.de> <3F2EF2B6.2000205@netscape.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hallo Nicholas, Am Dienstag, 5. August 2003 um 01:56 schriebst du: >>>Also, for 5.8.1, can you turn back on MakeMaker's bzipping of manpages, >>>like you had during the 5.8.0RC's? You might also considier targeting >>>/usr/share/man, as that is what we are hoping to transition to... >> 1. >> IIRC, I compressed the manpages manually, but if there is a feature in >> perl that allows to do this automagically, I can turn it on. > I might be confused, but I swear you had flipped it on for 5.8.0-RC2. > Maybe I'm thinking about my linux-from-scratch box... Recently I asked the Perl pumpking: > BTW, how can I tell Configure (or MakeMaker) to create compressed > manpages during install and later when installing some module via cpan > shell? An he answered: Uhhh, you can't. Compression is usually a feature of the man program. Maybe I patched MakeMaker to do this for us. However I have the patch not handy. I'll see if I can find a tarball of the test releases somewhere and look how it was done. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/