Re: $man.base.url.for.relative.links in man pages

Guido Falsi writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm the new maintainer for the maildrop FreeBSD port.
>
> A user made me notice that the man pages that come with maildrop, and
> with courier in genral it seems, are prendered with the
> $man.base.url.for.relative.links variable undefined, which generates
> this kind of content: (from maildropex(1))
>
> NOTES
>         1. reformail
>            [set $man.base.url.for.relative.links]/reformail.html
>
>         2. xfilter
>            [set $man.base.url.for.relative.links]/maildropfilter.html#xfilter
>
>
> I have not foung the sgml source for the man pages in the maildrop or
> courier source distribution, so Ive been unable to regenerate this
> redefining the variable.

They're in the subversion repo.

http://courier.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/courier/trunk/maildrop/maildrop/

> In the freeBSD port I can change them on the fly while installing, but
> it would be easier to have the full source to them, so i can recompile
> them with the correct path defined.
>
> Is this possible? How is this solved in other OSes?

Nobody really looks at them, actually. And, this is actually coming from  
Docbook's XSL stylesheet for man output. If you want to fix those, you'll  
just need to run them through manpages/docbook.xsl, with this parameter  
explicitly set.

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