[d9ed058f] | 1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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[6370fa6] | 3 | <sect2>
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| 4 | <title>Installation of Man</title>
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| 5 |
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[1e163254] | 6 | <para>We'll make three adjustments to the sources of Man.</para>
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[4114088] | 7 |
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[1e163254] | 8 | <para>The first patch comments out the "MANPATH /usr/man" line in the
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| 9 | <filename>man.conf</filename> file to prevent redundant results when using
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[4114088] | 10 | programs such as <userinput>whatis</userinput>:</para>
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[6370fa6] | 11 |
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[9930287] | 12 | <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-manpath-patch-version;-manpath.patch</userinput></screen></para>
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| 13 |
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| 14 | <para>The second patch adds the <emphasis>-R</emphasis> option to the
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| 15 | <emphasis>PAGER</emphasis> variable so that escape sequences are
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| 16 | handled properly:</para>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-pager-patch-version;-pager.patch</userinput></screen></para>
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| 19 |
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[4114088] | 20 | <para>The third and last patch prevents a problem when man pages not formatted
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| 21 | with more than 80 columns are used in conjunction with recent releases of
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| 22 | <userinput>groff</userinput>:</para>
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[9930287] | 23 |
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| 24 | <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-80cols-patch-version;-80cols.patch</userinput></screen></para>
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| 25 |
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[89fcc34] | 26 | <para>Now prepare Man for compilation:</para>
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[d9ed058f] | 27 |
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[753f08c] | 28 | <para><screen><userinput>./configure -default -confdir=/etc</userinput></screen></para>
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[d9ed058f] | 29 |
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[dcca029] | 30 | <para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <itemizedlist>
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| 33 | <listitem><para><userinput>-default</userinput>: This tells the configure script
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| 34 | to select a sensible set of default options. For example: only English man
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| 35 | pages, no message catalogs, man not suid, handle compressed man pages, compress
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| 36 | cat pages, create cat pages whenever the appropriate directory exists, follow
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| 37 | FHS by putting cat pages under /var/cache/man provided that that directory
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| 38 | exists.</para></listitem>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <listitem><para><userinput>-confdir=/etc</userinput>: This tells the
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| 41 | <userinput>man</userinput> program to look for the <filename>man.conf</filename>
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| 42 | configuration file in the <filename>/etc</filename> directory.</para></listitem>
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| 43 | </itemizedlist>
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| 44 |
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[89fcc34] | 45 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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[d9ed058f] | 46 |
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| 47 | <para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
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| 48 |
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[89fcc34] | 49 | <para>And install it:</para>
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[d9ed058f] | 50 |
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| 51 | <para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
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[6370fa6] | 52 |
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[d9ed058f] | 53 | <note><para>If you wish to disable SGR escape sequences, you should
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[4bc6304] | 54 | edit the man.conf file and add the <userinput>-c</userinput> argument
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[d9ed058f] | 55 | to nroff.</para></note>
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[4bc6304] | 56 |
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[1ea50a5] | 57 | <para>You may want to also take a look at the BLFS book which deals with
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| 58 | formatting and compression issues for man pages.</para>
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[9a0cfdf] | 59 |
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[6370fa6] | 60 | </sect2>
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[d9ed058f] | 61 |
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