Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 02:40:47 -0800 From: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@cs.berkeley.edu> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading texinfo Message-ID: <199701071040.CAA00973@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Jan 1997 02:34:05 PST." <199701071034.CAA03389@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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> * After that, to pursue my original goal, bsd.port.mk needs work > * to encourage the installation of info files correctly (using > * install-info). > > That's all nice and fine, but I still don't exactly understand what > bsd.port.mk has to do with this. Shouldn't ports' Makefiles be > patched to use install-info? Yeah, I assumed some sort of default rule could be defined in bsd.port.mk, up to you. It should also be set up so that packages use @exec and @unexec to install info files. I guess this too falls on the package maintainer. Unless I'm wrong, this seems like a shortcoming of the pkg_create utility. -josh
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