Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 16:41:53 -0400 From: Henry Hu <henry.hu.sh@gmail.com> To: Don Lewis <truckman@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gnome-post-install ordering Message-ID: <CAEJt7hZ6eb-Y2-aPs6GuoRgEG3yapyQsZQ3qMWD50ZHopD8jdw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201603161757.u2GHvsbJ038871@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <201603161757.u2GHvsbJ038871@gw.catspoiler.org>
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Don Lewis <truckman@freebsd.org> wrote:
> I'm trying to debug why gtk-update-icon-cache isn't getting run when
> the OpenOffice package is installed and ran into something that I don't
> understand.
>
> The Makefile contains INSTALLS_ICONS=yes, which has the side effect of
> setting USES+=gnome, USE_GNOME+=gtk-update-icon-cache, and
> _USES_install+=690:gnome-post-install, and that target is responsible
> for parsing ${TMPPLIST} and invoking gtk-update-icon-cache as needed.
> I do see gtk-update-icon-cache in the dependency list in +MANIFEST, so
> it appears that INSTALLS_ICONS=yes is being detected.
>
> It appears that things go wrong because I'm using the Makefile
> post-install target to generate the plist. If I look at bsd.port.mk, I
> see that _STAGE_SEQ contains 700:post-install. It looks to me like
> gnome-post-install is getting run before the plist is generated, which
> would explain why gnome-post-install isn't detecting any icons and not
> invoking gtk-update-icon-cache.
>
> Why is gnome-post-install earlier than post-install, which at least some
> ports use to do plist generation? Some ports do plist generation in
> do-install, but that doesn't work if there are do-install option helpers
> because those get run after the main do-install target.
>
It looks smilar to the issue I mentioned in PR 206019. It's also caused by
generated plist, but in that case it is a python port.
>
> There is the TARGET_ORDER_OVERRIDE knob, but it is very lightly used.
>
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Cheers,
Henry
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