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authorDaniel Jakots <danj@cvs.openbsd.org>2016-10-29 18:27:35 +0000
committerDaniel Jakots <danj@cvs.openbsd.org>2016-10-29 18:27:35 +0000
commit13b789a0407beb4585eb93e3aca06fa6272f471e (patch)
treeb80d7f2c4b9e1f6cc1ffcd2ed2e5eaf7c50a7292 /share/man
parent4db833d17f7ec6d9dbe311edd0b1aa7c1ecc1aaa (diff)
Update the man page after the addition of MODPY_ABI_TAG
From sthen@
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man5/port-modules.59
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/port-modules.5 b/share/man/man5/port-modules.5
index 565c5e5f729..95d2e25f07c 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/port-modules.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/port-modules.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: port-modules.5,v 1.209 2016/10/11 12:42:21 jca Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: port-modules.5,v 1.210 2016/10/29 18:27:34 danj Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2008 Marc Espie
.\"
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: October 11 2016 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 29 2016 $
.Dt PORT-MODULES 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -1224,6 +1224,7 @@ The subdirectory can be overridden with
Python 2.x places .pyc files in the same directory as the associated .py file.
Python 3.x places these in a separate __pycache__ directory and uses an
additional suffix.
+In some cases, an ABI tag is also used for names of compiled extensions.
The python module defines variables to allow a single PLIST to be
used for both versions.
Generate or update the PLIST using the python3
@@ -1236,8 +1237,8 @@ As python2 and python3 packages should permit being installed together,
it may be necessary to suffix names of common binaries or directories,
or split common files into a subpackage.
If updating the PLIST without using the python3 flavor,
-take care not to remove ${MODPY_PYCACHE} and ${MODPY_PYC_MAGIC_TAG}
-variables from the PLIST.
+take care not to remove ${MODPY_PYCACHE}, ${MODPY_PYC_MAGIC_TAG}, or
+${MODPY_ABI_TAG} variables from the PLIST.
.It lang/ruby
See
.Xr ruby-module 5 .