Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 16:21:06 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usr/ports make readmes & description Message-ID: <20201002162106.268bd362@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20201002032115.GA3769@rpi4.zyxst.net> References: <20200930005948.GA82633@bastion.zyxst.net> <20200930142901.10e1bab2.freebsd@edvax.de> <20201002032115.GA3769@rpi4.zyxst.net>
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On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 04:21:15 +0100
tech-lists wrote:
> That's what it's missing. Maybe the ports tree got too big for this I
> guess? The bit in that bsd.port.subdir.mk that's not getting run
> appears to be this:
>
> [...]
> readmes: readme ${SUBDIR:S/^/_/:S/$/.readmes/}
> @${ECHO_MSG} "===> Creating README.html for all ports"
> @perl ${PORTSDIR}/Tools/make_readmes <
> ${INDEXDIR}/${INDEXFILE}
> [...]
>
> I never see "Creating README.html for all ports" regardless of whether
> i'm in /usr/ports or /usr/ports/category when I run "make readmes". Is
> this a bug?
It's only supposed to work in the top-level of the ports tree. It
needs perl to be installed and the *correct* Index file, e.g. INDEX-12
if you are running some form of FreeBSD 12.
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