nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/misc/man-db/default.nix
Philipp Gesang 96666650ef
man-db: explicitly pass section string
Work around a bug in the autoconf setup of man-db: The
list of default sections does not include section 0 (zero)
despite ``./configure --help`` advertising it. This causes
header man pages (e. g. time.h from package posix_man_pages)
to be ignored by man(1):

    $ file /run/current-system/sw/share/man/man0p/time.h.0p.gz
    /run/current-system/sw/share/man/man0p/time.h.0p.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix
    $ man 0p time.h
    No manual entry for 0p
    No manual entry for time.h

Override the default (as defined in m4/man-arg-sections.m4)
until this is fixed upstream.
2017-11-19 15:11:38 +01:00

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{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, libpipeline, db, groff, makeWrapper }:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "man-db-2.7.5";
src = fetchurl {
url = "mirror://savannah/man-db/${name}.tar.xz";
sha256 = "056a3il7agfazac12yggcg4gf412yq34k065im0cpfxbcw6xskaw";
};
outputs = [ "out" "doc" ];
outputMan = "out"; # users will want `man man` to work
nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig makeWrapper ];
buildInputs = [ libpipeline db groff ];
postPatch = ''
substituteInPlace src/man_db.conf.in \
--replace "/usr/local/share" "/run/current-system/sw/share" \
--replace "/usr/share" "/run/current-system/sw/share"
'';
configureFlags = [
"--disable-setuid"
"--localstatedir=/var"
# Don't try /etc/man_db.conf by default, so we avoid error messages.
"--with-config-file=\${out}/etc/man_db.conf"
"--with-systemdtmpfilesdir=\${out}/lib/tmpfiles.d"
];
preConfigure = ''
configureFlagsArray+=("--with-sections=1 n l 8 3 0 2 5 4 9 6 7")
'';
postInstall = ''
# apropos/whatis uses program name to decide whether to act like apropos or whatis
# (multi-call binary). `apropos` is actually just a symlink to whatis. So we need to
# make sure that we don't wrap symlinks (since that changes argv[0] to the -wrapped name)
find "$out/bin" -type f | while read file; do
wrapProgram "$file" --prefix PATH : "${groff}/bin"
done
'';
enableParallelBuilding = true;
doCheck = true;
meta = with stdenv.lib; {
homepage = http://man-db.nongnu.org;
description = "An implementation of the standard Unix documentation system accessed using the man command";
license = licenses.gpl2;
platforms = platforms.linux;
};
}