1 files changed, 42 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/audio/synthv1/synthv1.SlackBuild b/audio/synthv1/synthv1.SlackBuild
index d5806adbfe5b..2c927fa9ba75 100644
--- a/audio/synthv1/synthv1.SlackBuild
+++ b/audio/synthv1/synthv1.SlackBuild
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 # Licensed under the WTFPL. See http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/ for details.
 
+# 20180702 bkw: updated for v0.9.1, install French man page correctly.
 # 20180615 bkw: updated for v0.9.0
 # 20180101 bkw: updated for v0.8.6
 # 20171220 bkw: updated for v0.8.5. Skipped 0.8.4 due to compile errors.
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@
 # 20170324 bkw: updated for v0.8.1
 
 PRGNAM=synthv1
-VERSION=${VERSION:-0.9.0}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.9.1}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -82,9 +83,48 @@ make install DESTDIR=$PKG
 [ -d $PKG/usr/share/metainfo ] && \
   mv $PKG/usr/share/metainfo $PKG/usr/share/appdata
 
+# 20180702 bkw: big long block of notes-to-self (and hopefully others):
+
+# Upstream ships a French man page, but installs it in the wrong place.
+
+# The Slackware situation with character sets and man pages confusing to
+# begin with, and is in flux because post-14.2 -current has switched to
+# using man-db. A lot of Slackware packages (not just SBo ones) get this
+# stuff wrong.
+
+# For 14.2, using old-school man, the man page has to be in ISO-8859-1,
+# in the /usr/man/fr/ directory. This works for LANG=fr_FR (page is
+# used as-is) and also LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 (man command converts it to
+# UTF-8 for displaying). Old-school man doesn't even look for a
+# /usr/man/fr.UTF-8/ dir at all.
+
+# 15.0, using man-db, works the opposite way: the man page should be
+# in UTF-8, stored in /usr/man/fr.UTF-8/, and will be used as-is if
+# LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8. If LANG=fr_FR, man-db will convert it to ISO-8859-1
+# for display.
+
+# The situation is even worse if you speak e.g. Japanese: I haven't found
+# a way to make 14.2's man display Japanese at all (which is one of the
+# reasons 15.0 will be using man-db actually).
+
+# For this build, upstream's French man page is UTF-8, so for 14.2 we have
+# to convert it to ISO-8859-1 here. When updating this script for 15.0,
+# we'll be able to get rid of the conversion (and most of this comment
+# block!) and ship only the UTF-8 man page. For now, include both,
+# to be -current-friendly.
+
+mkdir -p $PKG/usr/man/fr/man1 $PKG/usr/man/fr.UTF-8/man1
+mv $PKG/usr/man/man1/$PRGNAM.fr.1.gz $PKG/usr/man/fr.UTF-8/man1/$PRGNAM.1.gz
+zcat $PKG/usr/man/fr.UTF-8/man1/$PRGNAM.1.gz | \
+  iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1 | \
+  gzip -9c \
+  > $PKG/usr/man/fr/man1/$PRGNAM.1.gz
+
 # binaries already stripped, man page already gzipped. make symlink
 # to man page, to match the actual name of the binary.
-ln -s $PRGNAM.1.gz $PKG/usr/man/man1/${PRGNAM}_jack.1.gz
+for i in man1 fr/man1 fr.UTF-8/man1; do
+  ln -s $PRGNAM.1.gz $PKG/usr/man/$i/${PRGNAM}_jack.1.gz
+done
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cp -a AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog README TODO $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION