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# $Id: Portfile 36283 2008-04-25 13:35:43Z jmr macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: latex2man
Version: 1.19
revision 1
Category: textproc
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: nomaintainer

Description: Translator program intended to translate a LaTeX document into man

Long Description: Latex2man is a tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX into a format understood by the UNIX man(1)-command. Alternatively HTML, TexInfo, or LaTeX code can be produced too.

Homepage: http://www.informatik-vollmer.de/software/latex2man.php
master_sites http://www.informatik-vollmer.de/software
checksums md5 59fb43f8d9e4f56609a81e77b57b312c

depends_run bin:tex:texlive

worksrcdir ${name}

configure {
reinplace "s|\$(HOME)/man|${destroot}${prefix}/share/man|g" ${worksrcpath}/Makefile
reinplace "s|\$(HOME)/info|${destroot}${prefix}/share/info|g" ${worksrcpath}/Makefile
reinplace "s|\$(HOME)/public_html|${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/latex2man|g" ${worksrcpath}/Makefile
reinplace "s|\$(HOME)/tex/inputs|${destroot}${prefix}/share/texmf-local/tex/latex/latex2man|g" ${worksrcpath}/Makefile
reinplace "s|\$(HOME)|${destroot}${prefix}|g" ${worksrcpath}/Makefile
reinplace "s|/usr/local/bin/perl|${prefix}/bin/perl|" ${worksrcpath}/latex2man
}

pre-destroot {
file mkdir ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/latex2man
file mkdir ${destroot}${prefix}/share/texmf-local/tex/latex/latex2man

}

post-activate {
system " texhash && fmtutil-sys --enablefmt latex2man && fmtutil-sys --missing && fmtutil-sys --all"

# These are required so that local additions are picked
# up if teTeX is updated:
system "mktexlsr"
system "updmap-sys"
}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/latex2man
%  sudo port install latex2man  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching latex2man
--->  Verifying checksum for latex2man
--->  Extracting latex2man
--->  Configuring latex2man
--->  Building latex2man with target all

--->  Staging latex2man into destroot

--->  Installing latex2man

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using latex2man with these commands:

%  man latex2man
%  apropos latex2man
%  which latex2man
%  locate latex2man

 Where to find more information: