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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

Install

Package
# pkg install help2man
installs 1.49.3_1 from latest; from quarterly (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 versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 161.49.3_11.49.3_1–
FreeBSD 151.49.3_11.49.3_1–
FreeBSD 141.49.3_11.49.3_11.49.3_1

quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 151.49.3_11.49.3_1–
FreeBSD 141.49.3_11.49.3_11.49.3_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)

Tilman Keskinoz (arved) · 1.33.1
Cleanup empty directories for localized manpages.[1] Readd pkg-plist, because PLIST_DIRS does not support conditional @unexec rmdir

PR:		64901
Reported by:	dinoex
ac231e0b90
Tilman Keskinoz (arved) · 1.33.1
Fix Build on CURRENT, I am not sure why this worked on STABLE [1] Add WITHOUT_NLS knob.

[1]:
Reported by:	adamw, ale
Pointy hat to:	arved
24994a4c9c
Tilman Keskinoz (arved) · 1.33.1
Chase WWW
31ce32f399
Tilman Keskinoz (arved) · 1.33.1
Update to 1.33.1 Now with gettext support. SIZEify
df3ed795d9
Trevor Johnson (trevor) · 1.29
Use PLIST_FILES (bento-tested, marcus-reviewed).
a049dd78cc
Tilman Keskinoz (arved) · 1.29
Use new INFO macros
7a86de8bc7
Tilman Keskinoz (arved) · 1.29
Update my emailaddress.
188beb251b
Akinori MUSHA (knu) · 1.29
De-pkg-comment.
4d0a0dc1c6
OKAZAKI Tetsurou (okazaki) · 1.29
Upgrade to Version 1.29. Add USE_PERL5, because this is a perlscript Update MAINTAINER to the submitter.

PR:		43370
Submitted by:	Tilman Linneweh
3046e8cdee
Ying-Chieh Liao (ijliao) · 1.26
upgrade to 1.26
62c1bc7176
Ying-Chieh Liao (ijliao) · 1.25
add help2man 1.25 Automatically generating simple manual pages from program output
f4b8e5391a