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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--vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCmmUxWry0BWjoQKURAlaQAJ0bKYX7qfwUPa5+BuAx+rC8jKvZQACfTD4e /87vdBVp96VDaN5827vBS2k= =pxtz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL--
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