From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 9 11:53:36 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36A54106566C; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 11:53:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D5AB8FC08; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 11:53:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyh21 with SMTP id 21so369788wyh.13 for ; Tue, 09 Aug 2011 04:53:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:reply-to :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2ZHeJuvo3jxfxPmT/XsF3ri0prN8ZbFUSUHpt+9K414=; b=aGzgOgUGqla6B6I0oYUmnylPB5/LGzyairNL3a/dBkFDWrOioKEvoaYfo9+eX+7Ju9 d28+DXZBet8SwZUIE1Zw84Fwd4ecSDsD/8EWU970J8Ves/JdyOYrVd97BjCylDOI5IHA RCGwy/yuMxBEuakYTe4kB76uvbsLjlUpUpnLM= Received: by 10.216.59.129 with SMTP id s1mr5290713wec.77.1312890814374; Tue, 09 Aug 2011 04:53:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (87-194-105-247.bethere.co.uk [87.194.105.247]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g48sm4127092wee.13.2011.08.09.04.53.30 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 09 Aug 2011 04:53:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 12:53:28 +0100 From: RW To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" Message-ID: <20110809125328.1b994d99@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20110808223535.64fa91d1@serene.no-ip.org> References: <20110808223535.64fa91d1@serene.no-ip.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.24.5; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "make readmes" no longer builds individual ports' README.html files? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:53:36 -0000 On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 22:35:35 -0500 Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > Having been away from FreeBSD for a while, I'm still catching up with > all the changes that took place while I was on hiatus, so bear with me > here. :-) > > Trying to construct the ports' README.html files with: > > cd /usr/ports > make readmes > > Much to my surprise, this only creates README.html at the top level > and within each category, but nothing under the individual ports' > directories. When did this change, and why? Mailing list search has > turned up nothing useful on the subject. > > Or maybe I'm just doing it wrong? :-) > > Thanks. > When you "make readmes" from the top level the per port files are created by a perl script I tried running perl /usr/ports/Tools/make_readmes < /usr/ports/INDEX-8 and it didn't work. Since it's quite old I would guess a perl upgrade has probably broken it. [ Since this was cross-posted I've set a reply-to to "ports" where it belongs ]