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The help2man Portfile 57375 2009-09-10 08:16:41Z ryandesign macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: help2man
Version: 1.36.4
Revision: 1
Category: textproc
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: nomaintainer
Description: automatically generate simple man pages

Long Description: help2man is a tool for automatically generating simple manual pages from program output.

Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/
Master Sites: gnu
Patch Files: patch-Makefile.in

Checksums: md5 d31a0a38c2ec71faa06723f6b8bd3076 sha1 f3ffd89d50ee158589f2d0ccdc476d2ac3ebff70 rmd160 1c2e18f86c2d689dbc4bbc1d85e60a2273308c42

depends_lib path:bin/perl:perl5 port:p5-locale-gettext port:gettext port:libiconv

configure.perl ${prefix}/bin/perl
configure.args --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --infodir=${prefix}/share/info

post-patch {
if {[variant_isset universal]} {
if {[info exists universal_sysroot]} {
reinplace "s|-bundle|-bundle -isysroot ${universal_sysroot} ${configure.universal_ldflags}|" ${worksrcpath}/Makefile.in
} else {
reinplace "s|-bundle|-bundle ${configure.universal_ldflags}|" ${worksrcpath}/Makefile.in
}
}
}

post-destroot {
set docdir ${prefix}/share/doc/${name}-${version}
xinstall -d ${destroot}${docdir}
xinstall -m 0644 -W ${worksrcpath} COPYING debian/changelog NEWS README THANKS ${destroot}${docdir}
}

livecheck.type regex
livecheck.url http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/${name}/?C=M&O=D
livecheck.regex ${name}-(\\d+(?:\\.\\d+)*)

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/help2man
%  sudo port install help2man  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching help2man
--->  Verifying checksum for help2man
--->  Extracting help2man
--->  Configuring help2man
--->  Building help2man with target all

--->  Staging help2man into destroot

--->  Installing help2man

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using help2man with these commands:

%  man help2man
%  apropos help2man
%  which help2man
%  locate help2man

 Where to find more information: