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	"Jeremy L. Stock" <jstock@winterzone.com>
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Subject: RE: Ports Question
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:23:19 -0400 
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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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