On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:10:09PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > The second problem is related to the "NOMANCOMPRESS" flag in make.conf. > > When installing the XFree86-4 port, I found that the "install" and > > "package" targets would stop with an error saying that they couldn't > > find gzip'd versions of the man pages. Of course that made sense when I > > specifically didn't want the man pages compressed! I think some of the > > scripts are not paying attention to that flag. > > Most port developers never test their ports with NOMANCOMPRESS; most > of them probably aren't even aware of NOMANCOMPRESS. I don't really > see the point with it except on slow machines with plenty of disk > space (compressed man pages will probably load faster because disk I/O > is far more expensive than the CPU time required to decompress them)
Right..this is probably a bug in the port. Could you send-pr a full description of how to reproduce it? Kris
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