Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:53:37 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> To: mattia.rossi.mate@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing ports without info files Message-ID: <1379364817.1197.45.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> In-Reply-To: <523760EA.7090306@gmail.com> References: <523760EA.7090306@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 21:50 +0200, Mattia Rossi wrote: > Hi all, > > I've build a world with the following constraints: -DWITHOUT_INFO > -DWITHOUT_MAN -DWITHOUT_SHAREDOCS -DWITHOUT_EXAMPLES -DWITHOUT_HTML > > as I don't need that stuff. Turns out, this prevents tools like > install-info being built. > Now trying to build devel/gettext I can't get it installed, as it always > wants to install info files using install-info, which of course fails. > > How do I tell the system not to build info files (or manpages or all of > the stuff above I don't want in the first place) when building ports? > > I've tried with "make -DWITHOUT_INFO install" as well as with putting > WITHOUT_INFO=yes in make.conf. > > Gettext will still fail to install. > Is this a gettext problem? Or a generic ports problem? > > I'm running current on arm (thanks again to freebsd-arm people for > fixing it): > FreeBSD dreamplug 10.0-ALPHA1 FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA1 #15 r255499M: > > It's also not possible to "make index" for INDEX-10 if you use a > stripped-down ports tree (none of the language ports), as there are some > dependencies in the tree to french (cad-astk) and russian (stardict-*) > which obviously can't be resolved. > > Help is appreciated! > > Cheers, > I fought with the info problem for a few hours at $work and never got it resolved, I had to remove the WITHOUT_INFO so that the tools would be there to let ports build, and then rely on an mtree pruning script to keep the actual info files out of the filesystem image. -- Ian
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