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Date:      Sun, 29 May 2005 17:58:25 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Need a newer version of makeinfo
Message-ID:  <20050530005825.GA885@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050529232103.57148.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here>
References:  <4295459A.4080606@freebsd.org> <20050526163036.GC51533@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050529232103.57148.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here>

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On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 08:20:41PM -0300, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wr=
ote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 09:30:15AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 08:42:18PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> > > Version 2.6 of Lilypond (print/lilypond) requires makeinfo version
> > > 4.7 or higher to build.  Makeinfo is in the base system, but only
> > > as version 4.6 in existing releases (version 4.8 was imported into
> > > HEAD two days ago).
> > >=20
> > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how this should be handled?
> > > Should lilypond extract and build makeinfo as part of its own
> > > build process, or should a new port be created for makeinfo?
> >=20
> > A makeinfo port might be useful for this and other ports.
>=20
> 	Okay, I've just rolled a port of the latest texinfo 4.8.
> Check the sample port at
>=20
> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~lioux/texinfo.tgz
>=20
> 	I appreciate suggestions. Let me know what do you think
> could improve this port. I am still unsure as to if we should
> {BUILD,RUN}_DEPENDS on print/teTeX-base since we need tex to build
> .tex makeinfo files. However, I believe this should be optional
> rather than mandatory since our main concern is generating .info
> rather than other formats such as .html
>=20
> 	We could also add some bsd.port.mk specific support with
> USE_MAKEINFO so that the MAKEINFO variable would point to the correct
> location depending on the base system makeinfo version.  We just
> would need a OSVERSION bump when the base makeinfo is updated then
> we would test against that to decide whether to use the port of the
> base system's one.

That would only be worthwhile if lots of ports started needing to use
the new version.

Kris


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