Re: man page inquiry

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 at 17:13, Bob Bernstein <poobah%ruptured-duck.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, Valery Ushakov wrote:
>
> >> Do you care to take a stab at what that value might be were it
> >> to be correctly displayed?
>
> > I don't have the slightest idea.  /usr/pkg/etc/wdm probably.
>
> Yes, as was kindly pointed out to me by Martin in this post from
> only a few days ago:
>
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2021/10/06/msg027871.html
>
> I am capable of such extreme obtuseness that even I myself get
> confused by it!
>
> > You should really report this to pkgsrc folks.  I guess the
> > original package might be buggy (autoconf substitutions use @
> > not #) and needs a fix.
>
> You are no doubt quite correct with that suggestion. I will
> carry it out as simply as I can manage.
>
> Thank you again,

I don't think it is pkgsrc's fault - the original wdm.man.in file
contains the #configdir# string, before 'make patch'. The executable
uses the /usr/pkg/etc/wdm directory, as uwe@ surmised. A sed command
to replace #configdir# with ${PKG_SYSCONFDIR} should suffice.

>
> --
> "No matter how big the problem is, you can always run away from it."
>                                   Dom Irrera



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