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Re: pkg/32909: makeinfo issue on opensolaris when building sysutils/coreutils
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2007-02-20 03:54:42
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:00:07AM +0000, Johnny C. Lam
wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR pkg/32909; it has
been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: "Johnny C. Lam" <jlampkgsrc.org>
> To: lokianimata.net
> Cc: gnats-bugsnetbsd.org
> Subject: Re: pkg/32909: makeinfo issue on opensolaris
when building sysutils/coreutils
> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 03:59:39 +0000
> 
>  On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 05:40:00AM +0000, lokianimata.net wrote:
>  > >Description:
>  > A build of sysutils/coreutils bombs out during
"bmake build" when trying to use makeinfo to make
some info pages. The makeinfo in the work/.tools/bin
directory (which is what the build uses) is a shell script
that writes some stuff to the build log and then calls exit
1. This causes the build to fail.
>  > >How-To-Repeat:
>  > Go "bmake build" in sysutils/coreutils
on a Solaris Express system.
>  > >Fix:
>  > My workaround was to replace the makeinfo shell
script in work/.tools/bin with a symlink to
/usr/pkg/bin/makeinfo. The build completes and the install
works fine.
>  > 
>  > This is not a real fix though, the pkgsrc
framework should use the pkgsrc texinfo version of makeinfo
if the base system doesnt provide one.
>  
>  I'm fairly certain this was fixed in
pkgsrc/mk/tools/texinfo.mk:1.11,
>  which works around the odd target dependency graph for
info files in
>  makefiles generated by GNU automake.  Can you please
let me know if a
>  more recent pkgsrc still has this problem?

i just fetched from cvs and tried to build it on solaris 10
11/06, and
the problem still persists.

sorry guys.

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