From d1db6183689eaa2d32f4b01abb2ff88647c5c1bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 22:39:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Documented MANPREFIX and MAN%cPREFIX (where %c=[1-9LN]).

[my wording is probably awkward, if a wordsmith is bored perhaps they
could take a look at this]
---
 handbook/porting.sgml | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/handbook/porting.sgml b/handbook/porting.sgml
index ade51bff51..1d8f92ea79 100644
--- a/handbook/porting.sgml
+++ b/handbook/porting.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $Id: porting.sgml,v 1.52 1996-12-30 21:33:38 jfieber Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: porting.sgml,v 1.53 1997-01-01 22:39:12 obrien Exp $ -->
 <!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
 
 <sect1><heading>Porting an existing piece of free software<label id="porting"></heading>
@@ -955,6 +955,12 @@ MAN8=      baz.8
 	<p>Note that this is not usually necessary with ports that are X
 	   applications and use Imake to build.
 
+	<p>If your port anchors its man tree somewhere other than 
+	   <tt>PREFIX</tt>, you can use the <tt>MANPREFIX</tt> to set it.
+	   Also, if only some of the manpages go in a non-standard place,
+	   such as many Perl modules ports, you can set individual man
+	   paths using <tt>MAN%cPREFIX</tt> (where %c=[1-9LN]).
+
       <sect3>
 	<heading>INSTALL_* macros</heading>
 	<p>Do use the macros provided in <tt>bsd.port.mk</tt> to