| 1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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| 2 |
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| 3 | <sect2>
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| 4 | <title>Installation of Man</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <para>There are three patches for Man. The first patch comments out one of the
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| 7 | lines in the <filename>man.conf</filename> file (MANPATH /usr/man) to
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| 8 | prevent redundant results when using programs such as
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| 9 | <userinput>whatis</userinput>:</para>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-manpath-patch-version;-manpath.patch</userinput></screen></para>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <para>The second patch adds the <emphasis>-R</emphasis> option to the
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| 14 | <emphasis>PAGER</emphasis> variable so that escape sequences are
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| 15 | handled properly:</para>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-pager-patch-version;-pager.patch</userinput></screen></para>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <para>The last patch prevents problem when man pages not formatted
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| 20 | with more than 80 columns are used in conjunction with recent releases
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| 21 | of <userinput>groff</userinput>:</para>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-80cols-patch-version;-80cols.patch</userinput></screen></para>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <para>The paths to some programs are written into man's files.
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| 26 | Unfortunately, the configure script picks the last location in PATH
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| 27 | rather than the first place a program is found. By appending
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| 28 | <emphasis>/usr/bin:/bin</emphasis> to PATH for the
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| 29 | <userinput>./configure</userinput> command, we ensure that man doesn't
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| 30 | use the programs in the <filename class="directory">/stage1</filename>
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| 31 | directory.</para>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <para>Now prepare Man for compilation:</para>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <para><screen><userinput>PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/bin ./configure -default -confdir=/etc</userinput></screen></para>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <para>And install it:</para>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <note><para>If you wish to disable SGR escape sequences, you should
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| 46 | edit the man.conf file and add the <userinput>-c</userinput> argument
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| 47 | to nroff.</para></note>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <para>You may want to take a look at the man hint
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| 50 | at <ulink url="&hints-root;man.txt"/>, which deals with formatting
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| 51 | and compression issues for man pages.</para>
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| 52 |
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| 53 | </sect2>
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| 54 |
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