[PATCH] Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

[Leonard den Ottolander <leonard den ottolander nl>]

Hi,

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 00:53, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> How does that work? Using "@localstatedir@" instead of "/var" in the .in
> file?

Checking a Makefile.in this indeed seems to be the case :) .

More specific cases of course should come first.

Leonard.

-- 
mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research

--- mc.ext.in.orig	2005-06-07 22:43:15.000000000 +0200
+++ mc.ext.in	2005-07-01 01:05:16.000000000 +0200
@@ -184,27 +184,6 @@ regex/(^|\.)ls-?lR(\.g?z|Z|bz2)?$
 # patch
 regex/\.(diff|patch)(\.(bz2|gz|Z))?$
         Open=%cd %p#patchfs
-
-# gzip
-type/^gzip
-	Open=gzip -dc %f | %var{PAGER:more}
-	View=%view{ascii} gzip -dc %f 2>/dev/null
-
-# bzip2
-type/^bzip2
-	Open=bzip2 -dc %f | %var{PAGER:more}
-	View=%view{ascii} bzip2 -dc %f 2>/dev/null
-
-# bzip
-type/^bzip
-	Open=bzip -dc %f | %var{PAGER:more}
-	View=%view{ascii} bzip -dc %f 2>/dev/null
-
-# compress
-type/^compress
-	Open=gzip -dc %f | %var{PAGER:more}
-	View=%view{ascii} gzip -dc %f 2>/dev/null
-
 # ar library
 regex/\.s?a$
 	Open=%cd %p#uar
@@ -280,8 +259,8 @@ regex/\.(so|so\.[0-9\.]*)$
 	View=%view{ascii} file %f && nm %f
 
 regex/(([^0-9]|^[^\.]*)\.([1-9][A-Za-z]*|n)|\.man)$
-	Open=nroff @MAN_FLAGS@ @MANDOC@ %f | %var{PAGER:more}
-	View=%view{ascii,nroff} nroff @MAN_FLAGS@ @MANDOC@ %f
+	Open=case %d in @localstatedir@/log*) cat %f ;; *) nroff @MAN_FLAGS@ @MANDOC@ %f ;; esac | %var{PAGER:more}
+	View=%view{ascii,nroff} case %d in @localstatedir@/log*) cat %f ;; *) nroff @MAN_FLAGS@ @MANDOC@ %f ;; esac
 
 # Troff with me macros.
 # Exception - "read.me" is not a nroff file.
@@ -300,16 +279,16 @@ shell/.ms
 
 # Manual page - compressed
 regex/([^0-9]|^[^\.]*)\.([1-9][a-z]?|n)\.g?[Zz]$
-	Open=gzip -dc %f | nroff @MAN_FLAGS@ @MANDOC@ | %var{PAGER:more}
-	View=%view{ascii,nroff} case %d in /var/log*) gzip -dc %f ;; *) gzip -dc %f | nroff @MAN_FLAGS@ @MANDOC@ ;; esac
+	Open=case %d in @localstatedir@/log*) gzip -dc %f ;; *) gzip -dc %f | nroff @MAN_FLAGS@ @MANDOC@ ;; esac | %var{PAGER:more}
+	View=%view{ascii,nroff} case %d in @localstatedir@/log*) gzip -dc %f ;; *) gzip -dc %f | nroff @MAN_FLAGS@ @MANDOC@ ;; esac
 
 regex/([^0-9]|^[^\.]*)\.([1-9][a-z]?|n)\.bz$
-	Open=bzip -dc %f | nroff @MAN_FLAGS@ @MANDOC@ | %var{PAGER:more}
-	View=%view{ascii,nroff} bzip -dc %f | nroff @MAN_FLAGS@ @MANDOC@
+	Open=case %d in @localstatedir@/log*) bzip -dc %f ;; *) bzip -dc %f | nroff @MAN_FLAGS@ @MANDOC@ ;; esac | %var{PAGER:more}
+	View=%view{ascii,nroff} case %d in @localstatedir@/log*) bzip -dc %f ;; *) bzip -dc %f | nroff @MAN_FLAGS@ @MANDOC@ ;; esac
 
 regex/([^0-9]|^[^\.]*)\.([1-9][a-z]?|n)\.bz2$
-	Open=bzip2 -dc %f | nroff @MAN_FLAGS@ @MANDOC@ | %var{PAGER:more}
-	View=%view{ascii,nroff} bzip2 -dc %f | nroff @MAN_FLAGS@ @MANDOC@
+	Open=case %d in @localstatedir@/log*) bzip2 -dc %f ;; *) bzip2 -dc %f | nroff @MAN_FLAGS@ @MANDOC@ ;; esac | %var{PAGER:more}
+	View=%view{ascii,nroff} case %d in @localstatedir@/log*) bzip2 -dc %f ;; *) bzip2 -dc %f | nroff @MAN_FLAGS@ @MANDOC@ ;; esac
 
 
 ### Images ###
@@ -521,6 +500,27 @@ regex/\.([dD][bB][fF])$
 regex/\.(rexx?|cmd)$
        Open=rexx %f %{Enter parameters};echo "Press ENTER";read y
 
+# gzip
+type/^gzip
+	Open=gzip -dc %f | %var{PAGER:more}
+	View=%view{ascii} gzip -dc %f 2>/dev/null
+
+# bzip2
+type/^bzip2
+	Open=bzip2 -dc %f | %var{PAGER:more}
+	View=%view{ascii} bzip2 -dc %f 2>/dev/null
+
+# bzip
+type/^bzip
+	Open=bzip -dc %f | %var{PAGER:more}
+	View=%view{ascii} bzip -dc %f 2>/dev/null
+
+# compress
+type/^compress
+	Open=gzip -dc %f | %var{PAGER:more}
+	View=%view{ascii} gzip -dc %f 2>/dev/null
+
+
 
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