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

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

The following reply was made to PR misc/50117; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: misc-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
	netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: misc/50117: MKREPRO: /usr/share/info/dir problem
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:02:26 +0200

 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