From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 30 00:58:27 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1690716A41C; Mon, 30 May 2005 00:58:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B36DF43D1D; Mon, 30 May 2005 00:58:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9D9E65132A; Sun, 29 May 2005 17:58:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 17:58:25 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira Message-ID: <20050530005825.GA885@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <4295459A.4080606@freebsd.org> <20050526163036.GC51533@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050529232103.57148.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050529232103.57148.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Colin Percival , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Need a newer version of makeinfo X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 00:58:27 -0000 --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--