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10 changes: 2 additions & 8 deletions pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/compress-man-pages.sh
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Expand Up @@ -9,15 +9,9 @@ compressManPages() {
echo "gzipping man pages under $dir/share/man/"

# Compress all uncompressed manpages. Don't follow symlinks, etc.
# gzip -f is needed to not error out on hard links.
find "$dir"/share/man/ -type f -a '!' -regex '.*\.\(bz2\|gz\|xz\)$' -print0 \
| while IFS= read -r -d $'\0' f
do
if gzip -c -n "$f" > "$f".gz; then
rm "$f"
else
rm "$f".gz
fi
done
| xargs -0 -n1 -P "$NIX_BUILD_CORES" gzip -f

# Point symlinks to compressed manpages.
find "$dir"/share/man/ -type l -a '!' -regex '.*\.\(bz2\|gz\|xz\)$' -print0 \
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