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

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

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 07:05:01PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 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.

So it looks like the newer version in texinfo-6.0 will keep all sections
sorted and the entries per-section already are. Might be worth trying if
that fixes all the seens issues.

Joerg