* A more pure man implementation.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=10547

pkgs/tools/misc/man/default.nix

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+{stdenv, fetchurl, groff, less}:
+ 
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "man-1.6f";
+  
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/man-1.6f.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "0v2z6ywhy8kd2fa3ywkqayhjdivbaqn6qvhx93a1ldw135z8q84z";
+  };
+  
+  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
+  ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/;
+    description = "Tool to read online Unix documentation";
+  };
+}

pkgs/tools/misc/man/share.patch

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+diff -rc man-1.6f-orig/src/manpath.c man-1.6f/src/manpath.c
+*** man-1.6f-orig/src/manpath.c	2006-08-03 23:18:33.000000000 +0200
+--- man-1.6f/src/manpath.c	2008-02-07 15:31:43.000000000 +0100
+***************
+*** 109,121 ****
+   * or ../man or ../man1 or ../man8 subdirectories. 
+   */
+  static char *
+! find_man_subdir (char *p) {
+       int len;
+       char *t, *sp;
+  
+       len = strlen (p);
+  
+!      t = my_malloc ((unsigned) len + 20);
+  
+       memcpy (t, p, len);
+       strcpy (t + len, "/man");
+--- 109,121 ----
+   * or ../man or ../man1 or ../man8 subdirectories. 
+   */
+  static char *
+! find_man_subdir (char *p, char * maybe_share) {
+       int len;
+       char *t, *sp;
+  
+       len = strlen (p);
+  
+!      t = my_malloc ((unsigned) len + 30);
+  
+       memcpy (t, p, len);
+       strcpy (t + len, "/man");
+***************
+*** 139,159 ****
+       }
+  
+       /* look for the situation with packagedir/bin and packagedir/man */
+!      strcpy (t + len, "/man");
+  
+       if (is_directory (t) == 1)
+  	  return t;
+  
+       /* look for the situation with pkg/bin and pkg/man1 or pkg/man8 */
+       /* (looking for all man[1-9] would probably be a waste of stats) */
+!      strcpy (t + len, "/man1");
+  
+       if (is_directory (t) == 1) {
+  	  t[len] = 0;
+  	  return t;
+       }
+  
+!      strcpy (t + len, "/man8");
+  
+       if (is_directory (t) == 1) {
+  	  t[len] = 0;
+--- 139,159 ----
+       }
+  
+       /* look for the situation with packagedir/bin and packagedir/man */
+!      sprintf (t + len, "%s/man", maybe_share);
+  
+       if (is_directory (t) == 1)
+  	  return t;
+  
+       /* look for the situation with pkg/bin and pkg/man1 or pkg/man8 */
+       /* (looking for all man[1-9] would probably be a waste of stats) */
+!      sprintf (t + len, "%s/man1", maybe_share);
+  
+       if (is_directory (t) == 1) {
+  	  t[len] = 0;
+  	  return t;
+       }
+  
+!      sprintf (t + len, "%s/man8", maybe_share);
+  
+       if (is_directory (t) == 1) {
+  	  t[len] = 0;
+***************
+*** 341,347 ****
+          if (debug)
+              gripe (IS_NOT_IN_CONFIG);
+            
+!         t = find_man_subdir (dir);
+          if (t != NULL) {
+              if (debug)
+                  gripe (MAN_NEARBY);
+--- 341,347 ----
+          if (debug)
+              gripe (IS_NOT_IN_CONFIG);
+            
+!         t = find_man_subdir (dir, "");
+          if (t != NULL) {
+              if (debug)
+                  gripe (MAN_NEARBY);
+***************
+*** 352,357 ****
+--- 352,370 ----
+              if (debug)
+                  gripe (NO_MAN_NEARBY);
+          }
++ 
++         t = find_man_subdir (dir, "/share");
++         if (t != NULL) {
++             if (debug)
++                 gripe (MAN_NEARBY);
++               
++             add_to_mandirlist (t, perrs);
++             free (t);
++         } else {
++             if (debug)
++                 gripe (NO_MAN_NEARBY);
++         }
++ 
+      }
+  }
+  

pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

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     inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };
 
+  man = import ../tools/misc/man {
+     inherit fetchurl stdenv groff less;
+  };
+
   man_db = import ../tools/misc/man-db {
      inherit fetchurl stdenv db4 groff;
   };

pkgs/top-level/build-for-release.nix

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     libxslt
     lvm2
     lynx
-    man_db
+    man
     mdadm
     mesa
     mingetty