From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 9 14:13: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4CB9151E8 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:13:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17391; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:11:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:11:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Jeremy L. Stock" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports Question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message