Subject: Re: font stuff and man pages in distributions
To: None <tech-install@netbsd.org>
From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@arresum.inka.de>
List: tech-install
Date: 05/01/1999 15:09:58
On Sat May 1 14:26:43 1999, Simon Burge wrote:
[..]
> + It seems that some (most?) ports aren't compressing the fonts as much
> as they could be. For examples, this is from an arm32 font:
>
> nbftp:X11/fonts/misc 210> ls -l hanglm24.pcf.gz
> -r--r--r-- 1 simonb simonb 353568 Apr 4 21:32 hanglm24.pcf.gz
> nbftp:X11/fonts/misc 211> zcat hanglm24.pcf.gz | gzip -9 > hanglm24.pcf.gz9
> nbftp:X11/fonts/misc 212> ls -l hanglm24.pcf.gz9
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 simonb simonb 347029 May 1 04:54 hanglm24.pcf.gz9
>
> I have GZIP=-9 in my environment, but a proper fix would seem to be
> changing Imake.tmpl from:
> #define GzipCmd gzip
> to
> #define GzipCmd gzip -9
> Any objections to changing this if it works after I "make World" in
> xsrc?
Note, that we don't use -9 for compressing the manpages in /usr/share/man.
I don't think we need to gain the 2% while using -9.
You can put this line into your site.def if you really need it.
Bernd