Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:23:19 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Doug White' <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, "Jeremy L. Stock" <jstock@winterzone.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Ports Question Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105978@site2s1>
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This (of course) begs the question. If the make is failing because it
requires the info distribution (is it a dist or a port?) then why isn't it
considered to be a dependency?
More of a rhetorical question, but it had to be asked.
-Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug White [SMTP:dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 5:12 PM
> To: Jeremy L. Stock
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Ports Question
>
> On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Jeremy L. Stock wrote:
>
> > What is the following looking for/supposed to do?
> >
> > post-install:
> > @if [ ! -f ${PREFIX}/info/dir ]; then \
> > ${SED} -ne '1,/Menu:/p' /usr/share/info/dir > ${PREFIX}/info/dir;
> \
> > fi
> > @install-info ${PREFIX}/info/automake.info ${PREFIX}/info/dir
> >
> > This was taken from the Makefile for automake but quite a few other
> ports
> > have it now and they all abort on it before being registered under
> > 3.2-STABLE as of June 4th. I'm just been commenting these lines out but
> I'd
> > appreciate knowing what's not set up correctly.
>
> It's trying to add the program's info file into the info heirarchy. Did
> you install the info distribution? (info is GNU's replacement for man
> pages.)
>
>
> Doug White
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