Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:59:57 -0600 From: John Hein <jhein@symmetricom.com> To: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org, mattia.rossi.mate@gmail.com, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing ports without info files Message-ID: <21047.29005.285571.326198@gromit.timing.com> In-Reply-To: <1379364817.1197.45.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <523760EA.7090306@gmail.com> <1379364817.1197.45.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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Ian Lepore wrote at 14:53 -0600 on Sep 16, 2013: > 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 I have a patch for this that was going to go through a ports run, but stalled in the machine. I'll dig it out.
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