Re: [PATCH 2/9] rt-tests: cyclicdeadline: Add a simple manpage for cyclicdeadline

Hi John,

On Mon Jan 27 2020, John Kacur wrote:

On Mon, 27 Jan 2020, Kurt Kanzenbach wrote:

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I'm just wondering about this. Why are the man pages compressed in the
Makefile? Actually most package management systems compress the man
pages themselves. Users may want to use bz2 or something else.

In fact, I have a patch on top of rt-tests v1.6 in Gentoo which removes
the compression, because portage complains about it.

Thanks,
Kurt

I think it's because man pages are generally installed as .gz files on 
most distros. Although the Makefile is designed to work well with package 
management systems, it should also work correctly stand alone.

If you want to submit a patch that would optionally use a different kind 
of compression or otherwise handle things without breaking the current 
defaults, I would likely accept it.

Sounds good. I'll come up with a patch and keeping the existing defaults.

Thanks,
Kurt