Subject: Re: teach wtf(6) about pkgsrc's help facility
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 07/31/2007 01:04:21
Roland Illig wrote:
> Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>
>> + # Try querying pkgsrc's help facility next
>> + if [ -f ../../mk/bsd.pkg.mk ] ; then
>> + ans=`make help topic="$1"`
>
>
> Please "cd ../.." before running "make help". It will be much faster. It
> also doesn't execute some arbitrary commands based which package you are
> in.
Oops, I forgot that this only works in my local tree, and I didn't
commit it yet. ;)
Roland