If I remember correctly, xorg-x11 6.* included openGL and GLU man pages. I have found no packages containing such for the modular 7.0 version. GL manpages are very helpful. An ebuild to install them as opposed to bundling them with another related to xorg seems to make sense.
It's not clear to me what the best way to provide them is. I found a 5-year-old tarball at ftp://ftp.sgi.com/opengl/doc/ , and I found 1-year-old documentation at http://www.opengl.org/documentation/specs/man_pages/man/GL/ -- but only in postscript and html.
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Maybe ask the people running opengl.org if the html documentation is available in man page format (it is generated with PolyglotMan so there shoul a source). I would sugest including atleast the old man pages, if nothing newer is found. It would be nice if the html man pages could be installed optionaly.
Created attachment 84371 [details] opengl-man-0.ebuild app-doc/opengl-man-0 Ebuild for opengl man pages, from SGI ftp site (5 year old tarballs, but it's not like the standard's changed). Uses gcc assembler to avoid imake dep. Also installs html versions of pages to /usr/share/doc.
s/assembler/preprocessor/ (trying to grok PPC RISC asm will make you see assembler everywhere...)
It's nice to avoid a dep and all, but I'd rather just keep the ebuild simple and use imake. We'll probably version this with whatever date the tarball has (20001105 or something), and pull it in from mesa with USE=doc. How's that sound?
Created attachment 84474 [details] opengl-man-20001215.ebuild Sounds good. Is this OK? Seems imake and xorg-cf-files are pretty lightweight, so no harm depending on them. Uh, the LICENSE is "as-is" because the license on the ftp server is similar but not identical to SGI: no redistribution permission, and s/SOFTWARE/DOCUMENTATION/ (though only one of 2 occurrences).
Created attachment 84475 [details] opengl-man-20001215.ebuild rm xorg-cf-files dep, not needed
I really wish SGI provided versioned tarballs... That bugs me a bit...
Added the package, thanks! I will add a USE=doc to mesa to pull it in once all the arch teams keyword it. Arch teams, please ~arch app-doc/opengl-manpages.
Added ~alpha keyword.
Added ~amd64
added ~ppc64
added ~mips
Done on hppa.
~sparc'd
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Ping for arm and ia64. We'll also need sh and fbsd.
Done, thanks Joshua for letting me know :)
Ping arm ia64 sh
Just waiting on ia64 now ...
ia64 done, closing
Created attachment 257434 [details] Generate the man pages from opengl.org This is a quick'n'dirty ebuild. Don't use it directly. It's still a good step to an ebuild
Created attachment 257562 [details] Man pages from opengl.org This ebuild depends on non official ebuilds like http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194501 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349033 This ebuild is a little better than the previous submitted
