[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] mencoder manpage: strip path from symlink

[Björn Sandell]

On Fri, 17 May 2002, Eric Lammerts wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> This patch removes the full path from the mencoder.1 symlink.
> It's not needed, since mencoder.1 and mplayer.1 are in the same
> directory.
> 
> The reason for the change is that when you build a debian package,
> the symlink will contain the build directory (e.g., in my case
> /home/eric/dvd/mplayer/main/debian/mplayer/usr/share/man/man1)
> instead of the directory where the file will be installed.

May I, for similar reasons - package building on OpenBSD, expand that
patch a bit:

--- Makefile.orig       Sun May 12 03:07:24 2002
+++ Makefile    Wed May 15 11:14:53 2002
@@ -223,13 +223,13 @@ endif
        if test ! -d $(BINDIR) ; then mkdir -p $(BINDIR) ; fi
        $(INSTALL) -m 755 -s $(PRG) $(BINDIR)/$(PRG)
 ifeq ($(GUI),yes)
-       -ln -sf $(BINDIR)/$(PRG) $(BINDIR)/gmplayer
+       -ln -sf $(PRG) $(BINDIR)/gmplayer
 endif
        if test ! -d $(MANDIR)/man1 ; then mkdir -p $(MANDIR)/man1; fi
        $(INSTALL) -c -m 644 DOCS/mplayer.1 $(MANDIR)/man1/mplayer.1
 ifeq ($(MENCODER),yes)
        $(INSTALL) -m 755 -s $(PRG_MENCODER) $(BINDIR)/$(PRG_MENCODER)
-       -ln -sf $(MANDIR)/man1/mplayer.1 $(MANDIR)/man1/mencoder.1
+       -ln -sf mplayer.1 $(MANDIR)/man1/mencoder.1
 endif
        @if test ! -d $(DATADIR) ; then mkdir -p $(DATADIR) ; fi
        @if test ! -d $(DATADIR)/font ; then mkdir -p $(DATADIR)/font ; fi


Björn Sandell       DCE/DFS Sysadmin       IT department
Chalmers University of Technology    www.dce.chalmers.se