Re: man page inquiry

[uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost (Valery Ushakov)]

Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

>> > 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.
>
> 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.

From a quick look wdm already tries to replace them in its own
makefile by calling config.status, but config.status looks for @var@,
not #var#, so just patch the man page to have @ instead of # and it
should work I guess.

-uwe