- Convert to new perl frameworkc9cf6c6113
Port details
misc/help2man 1.49.3_1
Automatically generating simple manual pages from program output
Port info
- Maintainer
- sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
- Packages
- latest: 1.49.3_1
- Upstream
- up to date
- Last update
- to 1.49.3_1 · 62ed195754
- Quarterly
- 2026Q4: 1.49.3_1
- WWW
- https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/
- Links
- cgit · VuXML · Report wrong data
Install
- Package
# pkg install help2maninstalls 1.49.3_1 fromlatest; fromquarterly(2026Q4) 1.49.3_1- Port
# cd /usr/ports/misc/help2man && make install clean# make -C /usr/ports/misc/help2man config # change options first
- Size
- 175 KiB download · 564 KiB installed
- Depends on
- devel/gettext-runtime 1.0_1, devel/p5-Locale-gettext 1.07, lang/perl5.42 5.42.3, print/indexinfo 0.3.1_1
- License
- GPLv3
- Options
- 1 of 1 on in the package: NLS
Packages by version and architecture
latest
| FreeBSD version | amd64 | aarch64 | i386 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD 16 | 1.49.3_1 | 1.49.3_1 | – |
| FreeBSD 15 | 1.49.3_1 | 1.49.3_1 | – |
| FreeBSD 14 | 1.49.3_1 | 1.49.3_1 | 1.49.3_1 |
quarterly (2026Q4)
| FreeBSD version | amd64 | aarch64 | i386 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD 15 | 1.49.3_1 | 1.49.3_1 | – |
| FreeBSD 14 | 1.49.3_1 | 1.49.3_1 | 1.49.3_1 |
version as in the ports tree (latest) or the most common one (quarterly) · different version · ✗ not built · – no packages for this platform. Package sets that have not been rebuilt for 60 days are left out.
Unaddressed and VuXML only (0)
No unaddressed CVE and nothing reported by
pkg audit for the packaged version 1.49.3_1.Fixed (0)
No VuXML entries for this package.
Problem reports (0) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first
None.
Commits (111)
- Use USES=gmakebc221a68c1
- Update to 1.43.3 Changes: - Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan). - Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro). - Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz). - Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov). - Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi). - Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Tran Ngoc Quan). - Update French translation (thanks to David Prevot).d733768a2e
- Update to 1.43.2 Changes: 1.43.2: - Use the generic term "section" in the documentation rather than "name", which could be confused to mean only the literal "NAME" section. 1.43.1: - Add explicit include syntax for prepending, replacing or appending to generated output for a section (thanks to Daniil Baturin for the idea). - Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Tran Ngoc Quan). - Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro).652aab01f8
- Update to 1.42.1 Changes: - Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Tran Ngoc Quan). - Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar). - Consistently strip path and/or libtool "lt-" prefix from any instance of $program derived from --help or --version (thanks to Eric Shattow for identifying the issue).83d9d6f5f9
- Convert USE_GETTEXT to USES (part 3) Approved by: portmgr (bapt)e159824929
- Update to 1.41.2 Changes: - Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Tran Ngoc Quan). - Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar). - Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rodolfo Ribeiro Gomes). Feature safe: yes2c463f264c
- Update to 1.41.1 Changes: - Rename configure.in to .ac, and revise use of AC_INIT/AC_OUTPUT macros to meet current autoconf guidelines. - Add copyright headers to supporting files (GNU All-Permissive License). - Fix section name comparisons ($sect is localised). - Set filenames in italics (as suggested by Yann Soubeyrand). - Suppress option/filename handling in EXAMPLES section.22410da943
- Update to 1.40.13 - Cleanup Makefile header Changes: - Add "Multi-Arch: foreign" control field to permit any installable architecture to satisfy a build dependency when cross-building packages (closes: #694586). Feature safe: yes0f1223101e
- Update to 1.40.12 Changes: - Update Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar). - Fix updating of help2man.pot to occur only when help2man.PL is changed, not help2man generated.1b9539a55d
- Update to 1.40.11 Changes: - Add Croatian translation (thanks to Tomislav Krznar).07f77f073c
- Convert to new options framework2cb5e8bfc2
- Update to 1.40.10 - Remove SITE_PERL from *_DEPENDS - Pet portlint: use += instead of = Changes: - Update Greek translation (thanks to Savvas Radevic). - Update Serbian translation (thanks to Miroslav Nikolic). - Update German translation (thanks to Arun Persaud).aa31ce349e
- Update to 1.40.9 Changes: - Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi). - Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro). - Update Vietnamese translation (thanks to Trần Ngá»c Quân). - Update German translation (thanks to Chris Leick, closes: #669564).204dcc6bf5
- Update to 1.40.8 Changes: - Update French translation (thanks to David Prevot). - Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta). - Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz). - Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov). - Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan). - Modify self-extracting scripts to output to a temporary file. - Ensure that help2man exists before building manual pages (as reported by Richard Maw). Feature safe: yesbf06fab09c
- Update to 1.40.7 Changes: - Update Greek translation (thanks to Savvas Radevic). Feature safe: yes5988d94c4b
- Update to 1.40.6 Changes: - Update years in debian/copyright. - Fix FSF address in comments (thanks to Pautl Eggert).1dbcd4af5f
- Update to 1.40.5 Changes: - Clean up some lintian warnings: build-targets, source format and standards version. - Add Serbian translation (thanks to Miroslav Nikoli) - Fix trivial translation changes due to additional copyright year. - Minor fix to Italian translation.1c5d9b9f3f
- Change wording to avoid portlint warning of "which"e38af8c70c
- Update to 1.40.4 Changes: - Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks to Rodolfo Ribeiro Gomes). PR: ports/158083 Submitted by: Jin-Sih Lin <linpct@gmail.com>746ec0a2ed
- Update to 1.40.3 Changes: - Update Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro). - Update links to git repository.397176cfa3
- Update to 1.40.2 Changes: - Remove a superfluous period from texinfo doc. - Change footnote about supported languages to a simple paragraph. - Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta). - Update Ukrainian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan). - Update French translation (thanks to David Prevot). - Update Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi). - Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov). - Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).efbe18432e
- Update to 1.40.1 Changes: - Update texinfo docs with recommendations kindly provided by Karl Berry. - Document --libtool option. - Fixup references to GNU Standards. - Allow date format to be localised (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi). - Add Japanese translation (thanks to Yasumichi Akahoshi).b8499703b5
- Update to 1.39.4 Changes: - Update Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta)4718dabe39
- Update to 1.39.3 Changes: - Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot, closes: #620250). - Update the "Localised man pages" section of the Texinfo docs and note that translations are now handled through the Translation Project. - Update German translation (thanks to Chris Leick, closes: #624401). - Minor update to German translation as suggested by Werner Lemberg in http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=268285125c951cebbd
- Update to 1.39.2 Changes: - Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov). - Update Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan). - Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz). - Add Esperanto translation (thanks to Felipe Castro). - Update Finnish translation (thanks to Tommi Vainikainen).80e7995925
- Update to 1.39.1 Changes: - Add option to remove `lt-' prefix for libtool programs (thanks to Ben Asselstine). - Add Ukranian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan). - Update Russian translation (thanks to Yuri Kozlov). - Update Polish translation (thanks to Jakub Bogusz).ef210ce9b1
- Update to 1.38.4 - Add LICENSE - Use PLIST_FILES, PLIST_DIRS and PLIST_DIRSTRY instead of PLIST
Changes:
1.38.4:
- Add Italian translation (thanks to Sergio Zanchetta).
- Don't double encode $date in the header.
- Use UTF-8 encoding for all manual pages.
- Add Greek translation (thanks to Michael Kotsarinis).
- Update French translation (thanks to David Prévot, closes: #590580).
- Update German translation (thanks to Helge Kreutzmann, closes: #590975).
- Use INSTALL_SCRIPT to install Perl script.
- Remove deprecated DH_COMPAT in debian/rules, adding debian/compat.
- Add ${misc:Depends}.
- Don't ignore errors from distclean.
- Fix Brazilian, Russian and Italian translations (placement of period was
causing text to be interpreted as a macro).
- Update standards version to 3.9.1.
- Add missing dependency on dpkg/install-info.
- Strip bindtextdomain.so preload.
- Install preload into $(libdir)/help2man.
1.38.3:
- Apply patch from Mike Frysinger to allow "make install -j" to work.94b1417ff9- Update MAINTAINER to my FreeBSD.org address Approved by: pgollucci (mentor)e475c19a24
Bounce PORTREVISION for gettext-related ports. Have fun, ya'll.8d837132c7
- Update to 1.38.2 PR: ports/146178 Submitted by: Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@sunpoet.net> (maintainer)4f7cace5d7
- Fix `make package` when WITHOUT_NLS is defined. - Bump PORTREVISION. - Pass maintainership to submitter. PR: 144615 Submitted by: Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@sunpoet.net> Approved by: tabthorpe (mentor)d0c262b0f1
- Add CFLAGS to build port with "-lintl", because this port when build with GCC > 4.4 the port enable bindtextdomain.so - Add bindtextdomain.so for plist. - BUMP PORTREVISION PR: ports/144208 Submitted by: Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net> Approved by: itetcu (mentor) Feature safe: yes2a8fccc47b
Brin back patch-Makefile.in Submitted by: QATbe1d2f1453
Update to 1.37.1 Drop Maintainership27d3919c0a
Remove empty directories PR: 133654 Submitted by: leeymd2164dcf04
Bump portrevision due to upgrade of devel/gettext. The affected ports are the ones with gettext as a run-dependency according to ports/INDEX-7 (5007 of them) and the ones with USE_GETTEXT in Makefile (29 of them). PR: ports/124340 Submitted by: edwin@ Approved by: portmgr (pav)090059a210
Bump PORTREVISION for plist change Requested by: pavddb4285dd2
Fix plist Reported by: pav Pointy hat to: arved65e029f972
Update to 1.36.4 which adds a swedish translation. Don't run depend on gmake Submitted by: Martin Wilke (parts)bbf4274b92
eplace ugly "@unexec rmdir %D... 2>/dev/null || true" with @dirrmtry Approved by: krion@ PR: ports/88711 (related)d568611c3e
Update to 1.36.3 (Updated french translation)9b28a34395
Add SHA256 checksums for my ports4ec9c8318a
Update to 1.36.2 * Updated po translation from Jakub Bogusz. * Makefile.in: $(srcdir) fix from Paul Eggert PR: 88314 Submitted by: Boris B. Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> Grab back Maintainershipa52cbbab65
Update to 1.36.19189b75095
Update to 1.35.1dd693df835
- Remove all man directoriescb4057b78f
Drop Maintainership. This is usually the first port that fails if people manage to fsck their perl installations, so i am getting too many support emails.b76e969d49
Update to 1.34.223d3fe40f3
SIZEify (maintainer timeout)8232e82f85