Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:11:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Jeremy L. Stock" <jstock@winterzone.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9906091411090.3005-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906062248510.52872-100000@localhost>
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On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Jeremy L. Stock wrote:
> What is the following looking for/supposed to do?
>
> post-install:
> @if [ ! -f ${PREFIX}/info/dir ]; then \
> ${SED} -ne '1,/Menu:/p' /usr/share/info/dir > ${PREFIX}/info/dir; \
> fi
> @install-info ${PREFIX}/info/automake.info ${PREFIX}/info/dir
>
> This was taken from the Makefile for automake but quite a few other ports
> have it now and they all abort on it before being registered under
> 3.2-STABLE as of June 4th. I'm just been commenting these lines out but I'd
> appreciate knowing what's not set up correctly.
It's trying to add the program's info file into the info heirarchy. Did
you install the info distribution? (info is GNU's replacement for man
pages.)
Doug White
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