Re: misc/50117: MKREPRO: /usr/share/info/dir problem

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 10:30:01AM +0000, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR misc/50117; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: misc/50117: MKREPRO: /usr/share/info/dir problem
> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 12:29:17 +0200
> 
>  I think this is basically a -j issue.
>  
>  How about modifying bsd.info.mk that it doesn't call install-info
>  directly, but adds a line to a meta file, and adding a step at the end
>  of the build that sorts the meta file and calls install-info for each
>  of the entries?
>  
>  Where would be a good place for the meta file?
>  
>  Where do we put the target at the end? Are there some existing targets
>  it could depend on?

I think the only real fix is to make install-info sort the entries.
Which is useful in general, not just for reproducable builds.

Joerg