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| author |   Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2015-07-19 06:05:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2015-07-19 06:05:16 +0000 |
| commit | f0143f309111bca83659f897fa5c7c42548890ed (patch) | |
| tree | a4e4f250b02548ce4781417e928a293aee002be7 /INSTALL | |
| parent | 0c627ea8c3cc862ae75011fd19486724efdf240b (diff) | |
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Do not fork and exec gunzip(1), just link with libz instead.
As discussed with deraadt@, that's cleaner and will help tame(2).
Something like this was also suggested earlier by bapt at FreeBSD.
Minus 50 lines of code, deleting one interface function (mparse_wait),
no functional change intended.
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Id: INSTALL,v 1.11 2015/03/19 14:57:29 schwarze Exp $ +$Id: INSTALL,v 1.12 2015/07/19 06:05:16 schwarze Exp $ About mdocml, the portable mandoc distribution ---------------------------------------------- @@ -84,9 +84,10 @@ manual page source. Understanding mandoc dependencies --------------------------------- -The mandoc(1), man(1), and demandoc(1) utilities have no external -dependencies, but makewhatis(8) and apropos(1) depend on the -following software: +The mandoc(1), man(1), and demandoc(1) utilities only depend +on the zlib library for decompressing gzipped manual pages, +but makewhatis(8) and apropos(1) depend on the following +additional software: 1. The SQLite database system, see <http://sqlite.org/>. The recommended version of SQLite is 3.8.4.3 or newer. The mandoc |