nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/misc/man/default.nix
Eelco Dolstra 17fe5f329a * man: Prefer /etc/man.conf over $out/lib/man.conf. Man only reads
the first file that exists, so this is necessary to allow the
  builtin config to be overriden.

svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=32812
2012-03-06 10:14:00 +00:00

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{ stdenv, fetchurl, groff, less }:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "man-1.6g";
src = fetchurl {
url = "http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/${name}.tar.gz";
sha256 = "17wmp2ahkhl72cvfzshmck22dnq2lbjg0678swihj270yk1vip6c";
};
buildInputs = [ groff less ];
preBuild = ''
makeFlagsArray=(bindir=$out/bin sbindir=$out/sbin libdir=$out/lib mandir=$out/share/man)
'';
patches = [
# Search in "share/man" relative to each path in $PATH (in addition to "man").
./share.patch
# Prefer /etc/man.conf over $out/lib/man.conf. Man only reads the
# first file that exists, so this is necessary to allow the
# builtin config to be overriden.
./conf.patch
];
preConfigure = ''
sed 's/^PREPATH=.*/PREPATH=$PATH/' -i configure
'';
postInstall =
''
# Use UTF-8 by default. Otherwise man won't know how to deal
# with certain characters.
substituteInPlace $out/lib/man.conf \
--replace "nroff -Tlatin1" "nroff" \
--replace "eqn -Tlatin1" "eqn -Tutf8"
# Work around a bug in substituteInPlace. It loses the final
# newline, and man requires every line in man.conf to be
# terminated by a newline.
echo >> $out/lib/man.conf
'';
meta = {
homepage = http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/;
description = "Tool to read online Unix documentation";
};
}